Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 15

In the UK every zoo needs a licence and regular inspections under the Zoo Licensing Act of 1981, and some zoos have been closed after failing them.

Who acts: zoo · What happens: need, close, fail · To what, where: licence, UK, zoos, aquarium

This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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 (zoo), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 UK	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 UK	det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obl
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 zoo	det
5	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 licence	det
8	licence	licence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 inspections	cc
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 inspections	amod
11	inspections	inspection	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 licence	conj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 Zoo	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Act	det
14	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Licensing	compound
15	Licensing	Licensing	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Act	compound
16	Act	Act	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 1981	case
18	1981	1981	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 Act	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 closed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 closed	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 zoos	det
22	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 closed	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 closed	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 closed	aux:pass
25	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 needs	conj
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	27 failing	mark
27	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 closed	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 failing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	every zoo	a licence and regular inspections	the UK	the Licensing Act of 1981 obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot licence=Theme
2	close	present · perfect · passive		some zoos			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fail	gerund		aquarium			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×4. 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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