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title: The scimitar-horned oryx was extinct in the wild by 2000; zoo-born o… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics
description: The scimitar-horned oryx was extinct in the wild by 2000; zoo-born oryx were released in Chad from 2016, and the herds now have calves in the wild. Who acts: horned oryx, herds. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 11

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The scimitar-horned oryx was extinct in the wild by 2000; zoo-born oryx were released in Chad from 2016, and the herds now have calves in the wild.

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**Who acts:** horned oryx, herds · **What happens:** horn, be, bear, release, have · **To what, where:** wild, born oryx, Chad, calves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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 (horned oryx, herds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:11
# text = The scimitar-horned oryx was extinct in the wild by 2000; zoo-born oryx were released in Chad from 2016, and the herds now have calves in the wild.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 114-back-to-the-wild.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	horned	horn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	oryx	oryx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	oryx	oryx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **horn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the horned oryx |  |  | the wild |  | by 2000; extinct *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **release** | past · passive |  | born oryx |  | Chad |  | from 2016 | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **have** | present | the herds | calves |  | the wild | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient |

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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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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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