--- title: European bison were wiped out in the wild by 1927, but about 50 live… — Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to… · tree and pragmatics description: European bison were wiped out in the wild by 1927, but about 50 lived in zoos; they were bred and released in Poland and other countries, there are now thousands, and a few were brought to Kent in England in 2022. Who acts: 50, thousands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (50, thousands), 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:9 # text = European bison were wiped out in the wild by 1927, but about 50 lived in zoos; they were bred and released in Poland and other countries, there are now thousands, and a few were brought to Kent in England in 2022. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bison bison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1927 1927 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Poland Poland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 now now ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Kent Kent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wipe out** | past · passive | | European bison | | the wild | | by 1927 | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in wild=Trajectory | | 2 | **live** | past | 50 | | | zoos | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location | | 3 | **breed** | past · passive | | animals *= animal* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **release** | participle | | | | Poland and other countries | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **does** | present | thousands | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | past · passive | | a few | Kent | England | | in 2022 | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to kent=Destination | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/8/) - next →: [Back to the wild: animals that zoos re…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/114-back-to-the-wild/)