--- title: Black-footed ferrets were thought extinct until a small group was fo… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics description: Black-footed ferrets were thought extinct until a small group was found in Wyoming in 1981; they were bred and released, and a clone called Elizabeth Ann, made from cells frozen in the 1980s, was born in 2020. A sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Breeding programmes for rare animals:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/) / 12 # Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 12 Black-footed ferrets were thought extinct until a small group was found in Wyoming in 1981; they were bred and released, and a clone called Elizabeth Ann, made from cells frozen in the 1980s, was born in 2020. **What happens:** think, find, breed, release, call, make · **To what, where:** footed ferrets, small group, Wyoming, ferrets, clone, cells · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:12 # text = Black-footed ferrets were thought extinct until a small group was found in Wyoming in 1981; they were bred and released, and a clone called Elizabeth Ann, made from cells frozen in the 1980s, was born in 2020. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 footed foot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Wyoming Wyoming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 clone clone NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 Elizabeth Elizabeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 30 Ann Ann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | | footed ferrets | | | | extinct *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past · passive | | a small group | | Wyoming | | in 1981 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **breed** | past · passive | | ferrets *= ferret* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **call** | participle | | a clone *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | participle | | a clone *not said here* | | cells | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from cell=Material | | 7 | **freeze** | participle | | cells *not said here* | | the 1980s | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **bear** | past · passive | | a clone | | 2020 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:12`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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