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title: Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals at minus 196… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics
description: Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals at minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen; San Diego's Frozen Zoo holds cells from over a thousand kinds of animals. Who acts: Frozen zoos, Frozen Zoo. A sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of t
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# Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 10

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Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals at minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen; San Diego's Frozen Zoo holds cells from over a thousand kinds of animals.

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**Who acts:** Frozen zoos, Frozen Zoo · **What happens:** keep, hold · **To what, where:** cells, minus 196 degrees, thousand kinds

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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 (Frozen zoos, Frozen Zoo), 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:10
# text = Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals at minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen; San Diego's Frozen Zoo holds cells from over a thousand kinds of animals.
# 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	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sperm	sperm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	minus	minus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	196	196	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Frozen zoos | cells of rare animals and eggs and sperm |  | minus 196 degrees in liquid nitrogen |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cell=Theme at degree=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | present | San's Frozen Zoo | cells |  | thousand kinds of animals |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=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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**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.

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