--- title: Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such as Tahiti were wiped out… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such as Tahiti were wiped out by a predatory snail that people brought in to eat another pest snail; zoos bred them and have returned thousands. Who acts: predatory snail, people, zoos. 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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 (predatory snail, people, zoos), 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:17 # text = Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such as Tahiti were wiped out by a predatory snail that people brought in to eat another pest snail; zoos bred them and have returned thousands. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Partula Partula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 Tahiti Tahiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 predatory predatory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 in in ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 23 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 27 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wipe out** | past · passive | a predatory snail | Tiny Partula snails on Pacific islands such Tahiti | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source | | 2 | **bring in** | past | people | a predatory snail | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Asset | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | another pest snail | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient | | 4 | **breed** | past | zoos | snails *= snail* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **return** | present · perfect | zoos *not said here* | thousands | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/16/) - next →: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)