Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 5

Modern zoos say they exist for conservation, education, research and helping people love animals; the oldest zoo still open is Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, opened in 1752.

Who acts: Modern zoos, Zoos, research, people, oldest zoo · What happens: say, exist, help, love, be, open · To what, where: animals, Tiergarten, Vienna, 1752 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modern zoos, Zoos, research, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exist	nsubj
5	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 conservation	case
7	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exist	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 education	punct
9	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conservation	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 research	punct
11	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conservation	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 helping	cc
13	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 research	acl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 helping	ccomp
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 love	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 zoo	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 zoo	det
19	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 zoo	amod
20	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Tiergarten	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 open	advmod
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 zoo	amod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Tiergarten	cop
24	Tiergarten	Tiergarten	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
25	Schönbrunn	Schönbrunn	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tiergarten	flat
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Vienna	case
27	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tiergarten	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Tiergarten	punct
29	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Tiergarten	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 1752	case
31	1752	1752	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 opened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Modern zoos				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exist	present	Zoos = zoo			for conservation and education and research	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	gerund	research not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	love	present	people	animals			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
5	is a	present	the oldest zoo	Tiergarten	Vienna		tree rules
6	open	participle		Tiergarten not said here	1752		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1752=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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