Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 6
The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington is free and is famous for giant pandas sent by China since 1972; its pandas went back to China in 2023 and new pandas arrived in 2024.
Who acts: National Zoo, pandas, new pandas · What happens: be, send, go back, arrive · To what, where: giant pandas, 2023, 2024
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 (National Zoo, pandas, new pandas), 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 | 2 Smithsonian | det |
| 2 | Smithsonian | Smithsonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zoo | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Smithsonian | case |
| 4 | National | National | PROPN | _ | 5 Zoo | compound |
| 5 | Zoo | Zoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 free | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Washington | case |
| 7 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zoo | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | cop |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 famous | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 famous | cop |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 free | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pandas | case |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pandas | amod |
| 15 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 famous | obl |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pandas | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 China | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl:agent |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 20 1972 | case |
| 20 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 sent | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pandas | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | parataxis |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 China | case |
| 27 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 back | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 2023 | case |
| 29 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 went | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 arrived | cc |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pandas | amod |
| 32 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 arrived | nsubj |
| 33 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 2024 | case |
| 35 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 arrived | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 free | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington not said here | for giant pandas; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | giant pandas not said here | since 1972 | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | Smithsonian's pandas | 2023 | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | arrive | past | new pandas | 2024 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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