--- title: In 1987 the last wild California condors were caught, leaving 27 in… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1987 the last wild California condors were caught, leaving 27 in the world; lead from bullets in carcasses was poisoning them, and today there are over 500, more than half flying wild. Who acts: lead, 500. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the bi --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 6 In 1987 the last wild California condors were caught, leaving 27 in the world; lead from bullets in carcasses was poisoning them, and today there are over 500, more than half flying wild. **Who acts:** lead, 500 · **What happens:** catch, leave, poison, be, fly · **To what, where:** last wild California condors, 1987, 27, world, animals, wild 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 (lead, 500), 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:6 # text = In 1987 the last wild California condors were caught, leaving 27 in the world; lead from bullets in carcasses was poisoning them, and today there are over 500, more than half flying wild. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1987 1987 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 condors condor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 17 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bullets bullet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 carcasses carcass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 poisoning poison VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ _ 34 than than SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 36 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 37 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past · passive | | the last wild California condors | | 1987 | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | | 27 | | the world | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 27=Theme in world=Location | | 3 | **poison** | past · progressive | lead from bullets in carcasses | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **be** | present | 500 | | | there | today | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fly** | gerund | | wild | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wild=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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/4/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)