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title: Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos are celebrated, becau… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics
description: Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos are celebrated, because a small population needs every healthy baby. Who acts: small population. A sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 14

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Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos are celebrated, because a small population needs every healthy baby.

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**Who acts:** small population · **What happens:** celebrate, need · **To what, where:** Births, healthy baby

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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 (small population), 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:14
# text = Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos are celebrated, because a small population needs every healthy baby.
# 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): no change
1	Births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **celebrate** | present · passive |  | Births of rare animals like gorillas or rhinos |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | a small population | every healthy baby |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=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): no change. **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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