The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 14

Przewalski's horses, the last truly wild horses, died out in the wild and were saved by zoos, then brought back to Mongolia and to Xinjiang in China.

Who acts: horses, zoos · What happens: die out, save, bring back · To what, where: Mongolia, China

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 (horses, zoos), 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	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horses	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Przewalski	case
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 died	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 horses	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
7	truly	truly	ADV	_	8 wild	advmod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 horses	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horses	punct
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 died	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wild	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wild	det
15	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 died	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saved	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saved	aux:pass
18	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 died	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 zoos	case
20	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saved	obl:agent
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 brought	advmod
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 saved	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 brought	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Mongolia	case
26	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Xinjiang	cc
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Xinjiang	case
29	Xinjiang	Xinjiang	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mongolia	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 China	case
31	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 died	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	Przewalski's horses				in the wild	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute
2	save	past · passive	zoos					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring back	participle	zoos not said here	Mongolia and Xinjiang	China	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mongolia=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:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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