Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 6

For about 600 years English kings kept lions, a polar bear and an elephant at the Tower of London; the polar bear was allowed to fish in the River Thames on a long chain.

Who acts: English kings, polar bear · What happens: keep, allow, fish · To what, where: lions, Tower, polar bear, River

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 (English kings, polar bear), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 600	advmod
3	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obl
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kings	amod
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 allowed	parataxis
8	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bear	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bear	det
11	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bear	amod
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lions	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 elephant	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 elephant	det
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lions	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 Tower	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tower	det
18	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 London	case
20	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Tower	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 allowed	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bear	det
23	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bear	amod
24	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 allowed	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 allowed	aux:pass
26	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fish	mark
28	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 allowed	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 River	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Thames	det
31	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fish	obl
32	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 River	flat
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 chain	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chain	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chain	amod
36	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fish	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	English kings	lions and a polar bear and a elephant	the Tower of London	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme at tower=Location
2	allow	past · passive		the polar bear				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	fish not said to happen	to-infinitive	the polar bear not said here		River		on a long chain	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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