Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 5
The Bronx Zoo in New York opened in 1899 and is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which also funds and runs conservation work in many countries; in 1907 it sent bison to the Great Plains to help save the American bison.
Who acts: Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, work · What happens: open, run, fund, send, help, save · To what, where: 1899, conservation work, many countries, bison, 1907, American bison
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 (Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, work), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Zoo | det |
| 2 | Bronx | bronx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zoo | compound |
| 3 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 York | case |
| 5 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 6 York | amod |
| 6 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zoo | nmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1899 | case |
| 9 | 1899 | 1899 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 opened | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 run | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux:pass |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opened | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Society | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Society | det |
| 15 | Wildlife | Wildlife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Society | compound |
| 16 | Conservation | conservation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Society | compound |
| 17 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl:agent |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 funds | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 funds | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 funds | advmod |
| 21 | funds | fund | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Society | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 runs | cc |
| 23 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 funds | conj |
| 24 | conservation | conservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | compound |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 runs | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 countries | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 countries | amod |
| 28 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 work | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 sent | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 1907 | case |
| 31 | 1907 | 1907 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 sent | obl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sent | nsubj |
| 33 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | parataxis |
| 34 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sent | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Plains | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Plains | det |
| 37 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Plains | amod |
| 38 | Plains | plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 sent | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 help | mark |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sent | advcl |
| 41 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 help | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bison | det |
| 43 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 bison | amod |
| 44 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 save | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Bronx Zoo in New York | 1899 | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1899=Location | ||||
| 2 | run | present · passive | the Wildlife Conservation Society | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fund | present | the Wildlife Conservation Society | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | present | the Wildlife Conservation Society not said here | conservation work | many countries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent work=Theme in country=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | send | past | work | bison | 1907 | to the Great Plains | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bison=Theme in 1907=Destination | ||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | work not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | save | infinitive | work not said here | the American bison | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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