--- title: Many zoo animals live longer than wild ones thanks to food, medicine… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics description: Many zoo animals live longer than wild ones thanks to food, medicine and safety from predators, but some, like elephants and orcas, have often lived shorter lives in captivity than in the wild. Who acts: Many zoo animals, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many zoo animals, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:13 # text = Many zoo animals live longer than wild ones thanks to food, medicine and safety from predators, but some, like elephants and orcas, have often lived shorter lives in captivity than in the wild. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 orcas orca NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 30 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 31 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 captivity captivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Many zoo animals | thanks to food and medicine and safety from predators | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present · perfect | some | shorter lives | | captivity than the wild | | often *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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