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title: Today good zoos say they are for four things: saving species, teachi… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics
description: Today good zoos say they are for four things: saving species, teaching people, doing research and helping people love animals, and the Arabian oryx, the condor and Przewalski's horse are alive in the wild partly thanks to them. Who acts: good zoos, Zoos, people. A sentence of the lesson «Why zoos ex
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# Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 1

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Today good zoos say they are for four things: saving species, teaching people, doing research and helping people love animals, and the Arabian oryx, the condor and Przewalski's horse are alive in the wild partly thanks to them.

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**Who acts:** good zoos, Zoos, people · **What happens:** say, be, save, teach, do, help · **To what, where:** research, animals, wild · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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 (good zoos, Zoos, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:1
# text = Today good zoos say they are for four things: saving species, teaching people, doing research and helping people love animals, and the Arabian oryx, the condor and Przewalski's horse are alive in the wild partly thanks to them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
18	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:ccomp
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	oryx	oryx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc
33	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
42	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | good zoos |  |  |  | today |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Zoos *= zoo* |  |  |  |  | for four things and saving species | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | gerund |  | research |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Eventuality |
| 6 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **love** | present | people | animals |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | present | good zoos *not said here* |  |  | the wild |  | thanks to Zoos *obl*; alive *property* | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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