Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 12

Good zoos keep family records called studbooks so that rare animals are not too closely related, because a healthy mix of genes helps them survive disease and change.

Who acts: Good zoos, family records, rare animals, healthy mix, animals · What happens: keep, call, not be, help, survive · To what, where: family records, studbooks, animals, disease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 (Good zoos, family records, rare animals, healthy mix), 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	Good	good	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	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 records	compound
5	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 records	acl
7	studbooks	studbook	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 related	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 related	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 related	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 related	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 closely	advmod
15	closely	closely	ADV	_	16 related	advmod
16	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 helps	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 helps	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mix	det
20	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mix	amod
21	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helps	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 genes	case
23	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mix	nmod
24	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 helps	obj
26	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 helps	xcomp
27	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 survive	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 change	cc
29	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 disease	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Good zoos	family records		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme
2	call	participle	family records not said here	studbooks		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	rare animals		closely, related property	tree rules
4	help	present	a healthy mix of genes	animals = animal		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	survive	infinitive	animals = animal not said here	disease and change		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme disease=Circumstance

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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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