Animals, sentence 11
Zoos can protect endangered species and teach people, but cages limit animals' freedom; whether zoos should exist is disputed.
Who acts: Zoos, cages · What happens: protect, teach, limit, exist, dispute · To what, where: endangered species, people, freedom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics 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 (Zoos, cages), 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 | Zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 protect | aux |
| 3 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 species | amod |
| 5 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 protect | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 teach | cc |
| 7 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 protect | conj |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 teach | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 limit | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 limit | cc |
| 11 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 limit | nsubj |
| 12 | limit | limit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 protect | conj |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 animals | case |
| 15 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 limit | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 disputed | punct |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 20 exist | mark |
| 18 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 exist | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 exist | aux |
| 20 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 disputed | csubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 disputed | aux:pass |
| 22 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 protect | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | can | Zoos | endangered species | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | infinitive | Zoos not said here | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | limit | present | cages | animals's freedom | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer freedom=Patient | ||||
| 4 | exist | should | zoos | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dispute | present · passive | vn battle-36.4 «NP V» |
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:religion-ethics:046-animals.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 ×2, R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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