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title: If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but they try to keep it with its own kind, because a chick raised only by people may not act like its own kind or fear danger in the wild; condor chicks were fed with puppets shaped like condor heads. Who acts: mother, keepers, chick. A
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# Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 15

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If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but they try to keep it with its own kind, because a chick raised only by people may not act like its own kind or fear danger in the wild; condor chicks were fed with puppets shaped like condor heads.

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**Who acts:** mother, keepers, chick · **What happens:** not care, rear, try, keep, raise, not act · **To what, where:** hand, chick, condor chicks, puppets

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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 (mother, keepers, chick), 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:15
# text = If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but they try to keep it with its own kind, because a chick raised only by people may not act like its own kind or fear danger in the wild; condor chicks were fed with puppets shaped like condor heads.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	rear	rear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
32	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:agent	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
45	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:obj
56	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a mother |  |  |  |  | for mother's baby | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for baby=Theme |
| 2 | **rear** | may | keepers | hand |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | present | keepers *= keeper* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | keepers *= keeper* *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | with hand's own kind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **raise** | participle |  | a chick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **act** | may | a chick |  |  |  |  | like chick's own kind in the wild or danger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like kind=Attribute |
| 7 | **fear** | infinitive | a chick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **feed** | past · passive |  | condor chicks |  |  |  | with puppets | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 9 | **shape** | participle |  | puppets *not said here* |  |  |  | like condor heads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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