--- title: Some British zoos breed native animals like water voles (small river… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: Some British zoos breed native animals like water voles (small river animals, not rats, that have vanished from much of Britain), sand lizards and pool frogs for release, and Chester Zoo and others have released thousands of water voles. Who acts: British zoos, small river animals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British zoos, small river animals), 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:14 # text = Some British zoos breed native animals like water voles (small river animals, not rats, that have vanished from much of Britain), sand lizards and pool frogs for release, and Chester Zoo and others have released thousands of water voles. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 breed breed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 Chester Chester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 37 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nsubj 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 42 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | present | some British zoos | native animals and sand lizards for release and pool frogs | | | | like water voles | tree rules | | 2 | **vanish** | present · perfect | small river animals and rats | | | much of Britain | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from much=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **release** | present · perfect | some British zoos *not said here* | thousands of water voles | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer thousand=Source | 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:114-back-to-the-wild.lesson:14`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/13/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)