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title: If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics
description: If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be cousins, and when close relatives have babies together, hidden illnesses in the family show up much more often. Who acts: leopards, close relatives, hidden illnesses. A sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: 
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# Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 0

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If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be cousins, and when close relatives have babies together, hidden illnesses in the family show up much more often.

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**Who acts:** leopards, close relatives, hidden illnesses · **What happens:** leave, be, have, show up · **To what, where:** few snow leopards, zoos, cousins, babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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 (leopards, close relatives, hidden illnesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:0
# text = If only a few snow leopards are left in zoos, they could soon all be cousins, and when close relatives have babies together, hidden illnesses in the family show up much more often.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
27	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
34	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
36	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | a few snow leopards |  | zoos |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | could | leopards *= leopard* | cousins |  |  |  | all, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | close relatives | babies |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 4 | **show up** | present | hidden illnesses in the family |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:0`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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