--- title: That is why we cannot simply open all the cages: a release works onl… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why we cannot simply open all the cages: a release works only when the wild home is protected and the thing that killed the animals in the first place has gone. Who acts: That, we, release, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the biolog --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 4 That is why we cannot simply open all the cages: a release works only when the wild home is protected and the thing that killed the animals in the first place has gone. **Who acts:** That, we, release, thing · **What happens:** be, not open, work, protect, kill, go · **To what, where:** cages, wild home, animals, first place 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 (That, we, release, thing), 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:4 # text = That is why we cannot simply open all the cages: a release works only when the wild home is protected and the thing that killed the animals in the first place has gone. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 simply simply ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cages cage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl:relcl 16 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **open** | can | we | all cages | | | | simply *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=Theme | | 3 | **work** | present | a release | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | present · passive | | the wild home | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 5 | **kill** | past | the thing | the animals | | the first place | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 6 | **go** | present · perfect | the thing | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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): 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/3/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)