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title: Zoo-born animals may not know how to find food or avoid predators, s… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoo-born animals may not know how to find food or avoid predators, so many first go through a soft release in big pens in the wild; golden lion tamarins survived better once they were released in family groups. Who acts: born animals, many, golden lion tamarins. A sentence of the lesson «Back to the
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# Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature, sentence 8

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Zoo-born animals may not know how to find food or avoid predators, so many first go through a soft release in big pens in the wild; golden lion tamarins survived better once they were released in family groups.

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**Who acts:** born animals, many, golden lion tamarins · **What happens:** bear, not know, find, avoid, go, survive · **To what, where:** food, predators, soft release, animals, family groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (born animals, many, golden lion tamarins), 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:8
# text = Zoo-born animals may not know how to find food or avoid predators, so many first go through a soft release in big pens in the wild; golden lion tamarins survived better once they were released in family groups.
# 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
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
36	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **know** | may | born animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 4 | **avoid** | infinitive |  | predators |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent predator=Location |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | many |  |  | a soft release in big pens in the wild |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through release=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **survive** | past | golden lion tamarins |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **release** | past · passive |  | animals *= animal* |  | family groups |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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