The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 11
Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals in liquid nitrogen, which may help to breed more animals later; the northern white rhino, with only two females left, may be helped this way.
Who acts: Frozen zoos, liquid nitrogen · What happens: keep, help, breed, leave · To what, where: cells, liquid nitrogen, more animals, two females, northern white rhino
This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (Frozen zoos, liquid nitrogen), 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 | Frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoos | amod |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eggs | punct |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cells | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sperm | cc |
| 8 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cells | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 10 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cells | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nitrogen | case |
| 13 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nitrogen | amod |
| 14 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 help | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nitrogen | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 breed | mark |
| 20 | breed | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | xcomp |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 breed | obj |
| 23 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 breed | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 helped | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rhino | det |
| 26 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rhino | amod |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rhino | amod |
| 28 | rhino | rhino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 helped | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 females | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 females | case |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 two | advmod |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 females | nummod |
| 33 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rhino | nmod |
| 34 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 females | acl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 left | punct |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 helped | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 helped | aux:pass |
| 38 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 keep | conj |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 way | det |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 helped | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Frozen zoos | cells of rare animals and eggs and sperm | liquid nitrogen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cell=Theme in nitrogen=Location | |||
| 2 | help | may | liquid nitrogen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | breed | to-infinitive | liquid nitrogen not said here | more animals | late property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | participle | two females not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help | may · passive | the northern white rhino with two females | this way obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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