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title: Many zoos fund rangers and scientists in places like Kenya, because… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many zoos fund rangers and scientists in places like Kenya, because protecting animals where they live is often more effective than breeding them in zoos. Who acts: Many zoos, zoos, protecting. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the biology course of
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# Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 16

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Many zoos fund rangers and scientists in places like Kenya, because protecting animals where they live is often more effective than breeding them in zoos.

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**Who acts:** Many zoos, zoos, protecting · **What happens:** fund, protect, live, be, breed · **To what, where:** rangers, places, animals, zoos

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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 (Many zoos, zoos, protecting), 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:16
# text = Many zoos fund rangers and scientists in places like Kenya, because protecting animals where they live is often more effective than breeding them in zoos.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fund	fund	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rangers	ranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	breeding	breed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **fund** | present | Many zoos | rangers and scientists |  | places like Kenya |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund |  |  | animals |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **live** | present | zoos *= zoo* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | protecting |  |  |  |  | effective, often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **breed** | gerund | protecting *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* |  | zoos |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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