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title: Releasing is very hard: an animal born in a zoo does not know how to… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Releasing is very hard: an animal born in a zoo does not know how to find food or spot a predator, so it first learns in a big pen in the wild, then wears a radio collar so scientists can see if it survives. Who acts: animal, predator, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals 
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# Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 3

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Releasing is very hard: an animal born in a zoo does not know how to find food or spot a predator, so it first learns in a big pen in the wild, then wears a radio collar so scientists can see if it survives.

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**Who acts:** animal, predator, scientists · **What happens:** release, be, bear, not know, find, spot · **To what, where:** animal, zoo, food, predator, big pen, radio collar

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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 (animal, predator, scientists), 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:3
# text = Releasing is very hard: an animal born in a zoo does not know how to find food or spot a predator, so it first learns in a big pen in the wild, then wears a radio collar so scientists can see if it survives.
# 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): no change
1	Releasing	release	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	predator	predator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
27	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **release** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | a animal *not said here* |  | a zoo |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | a animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | a animal *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 6 | **spot** | infinitive | a animal *not said here* | a predator |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme predator=Destination |
| 7 | **learn** | present | predator |  |  | a big pen in the wild |  | first *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **wear** | present | predator *not said here* | a radio collar |  |  | then |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | can | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **survive** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | predator |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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