Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 12
During the war in Ukraine some zoos were reported to be shelled; keepers stayed to feed the animals or moved them to safety, and some animals were taken to zoos in Poland and other countries.
Who acts: keepers · What happens: report, shell, stay, feed, move, take · To what, where: zoos, animals, safety
This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 (keepers), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 war | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 war | det |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reported | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ukraine | case |
| 5 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 war | nmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 zoos | det |
| 7 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reported | aux:pass |
| 9 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shelled | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shelled | aux:pass |
| 12 | shelled | shell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reported | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 14 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reported | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feed | mark |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stayed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animals | det |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 feed | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 moved | cc |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moved | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moved | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 taken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 taken | cc |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 animals | det |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 taken | aux:pass |
| 30 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reported | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 zoos | case |
| 32 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 taken | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Poland | case |
| 34 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 zoos | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 countries | cc |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 countries | amod |
| 37 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Poland | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | some zoos | during the war in Ukraine | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | shell | to-infinitive · passive | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 3 | stay | past | keepers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | keepers not said here | the animals | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | move | past | keepers not said here | zoos = zoo | safety | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to safety=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | take | past · passive | some animals | zoos in Poland and other countries | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to zoo=Destination |
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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:12.
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. 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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