The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar, sentence 8

Golden lion tamarins from Brazil fell to about 200 in the wild in the 1970s; zoos bred them and returned some to protected forest, and there are now a few thousand.

Who acts: Golden lion tamarins, zoos, few thousand · What happens: fall, breed, return, protect, be · To what, where: 1970s, tamarins, some, protected forest

This is a sentence of the lesson «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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 (Golden lion tamarins, zoos, few thousand), 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	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tamarins	amod
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tamarins	compound
3	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Brazil	case
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tamarins	nmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 200	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 200	advmod
9	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 fell	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wild	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wild	det
12	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 200	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 1970s	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 1970s	det
15	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 fell	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bred	punct
17	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bred	nsubj
18	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bred	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 returned	cc
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bred	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 returned	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 forest	amod
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 returned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 are	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 are	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 are	expl
29	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
30	now	now	ADV	_	29 are	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thousand	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thousand	amod
33	thousand	thousand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 are	nsubj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Golden lion tamarins from Brazil		the 1970s		to 200 in the wild	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1970s=Location
2	breed	past	zoos	tamarins = tamarin				tree rules
3	return	past	zoos not said here	some	protected forest			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to forest=Destination
4	protect	participle						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	a few thousand		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:8.

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): no change. 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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