Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 8

Some people think keeping wild animals in captivity is wrong even with good care, and some want zoos turned into sanctuaries that only rescue animals.

Who acts: people, keeping, some, zoos, sanctuaries · What happens: think, keep, be, want, turn, rescue · To what, where: wild animals, captivity, sanctuaries, animals · 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 (people, keeping, some, zoos), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wrong	csubj
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeping	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 captivity	case
8	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeping	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 care	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 care	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 care	amod
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrong	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 want	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	conj
19	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 want	xcomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 sanctuaries	case
22	sanctuaries	sanctuary	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 rescue	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 rescue	advmod
25	rescue	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sanctuaries	acl:relcl
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rescue	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	some people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	gerund		wild animals	captivity		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in captivity=Location
3	is	present	keeping			with good care; wrong property	tree rules
4	want	present	some				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	turn not said to happen	participle	zoos		sanctuaries		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sanctuary=Trajectory
6	rescue	present	sanctuaries	animals			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

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:8.

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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