--- title: The Arabian oryx, the European bison, Przewalski's horse, the Califo… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: The Arabian oryx, the European bison, Przewalski's horse, the California condor and the scimitar-horned oryx all came back this way, and tiny Partula snails went back to their islands in their thousands. Who acts: Arabian oryx, tiny Partula snails. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/) / 2 # Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 2 The Arabian oryx, the European bison, Przewalski's horse, the California condor and the scimitar-horned oryx all came back this way, and tiny Partula snails went back to their islands in their thousands. **Who acts:** Arabian oryx, tiny Partula snails · **What happens:** horn, come back, go back · **To what, where:** way, thousands 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 (Arabian oryx, tiny Partula snails), 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:2 # text = The Arabian oryx, the European bison, Przewalski's horse, the California condor and the scimitar-horned oryx all came back this way, and tiny Partula snails went back to their islands in their 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, R3-conj-first ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Arabian Arabian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 oryx oryx NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Przewalski Przewalski PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 condor condor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 scimitar scimitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 horned horn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 oryx oryx NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 Partula Partula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **horn** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come back** | past | the Arabian oryx and the European bison and Przewalski's horse and the California condor and the horned oryx | this way | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go back** | past | tiny Partula snails | | | oryx's thousands | | to oryx's islands *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result | 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:2`. **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, R3-conj-first ×3. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/1/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)