--- title: Good zoos are accredited by associations such as the AZA in America,… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: Good zoos are accredited by associations such as the AZA in America, BIAZA in Britain and Ireland, EAZA in Europe and the ZAA in Australia, which check care, safety and conservation; many roadside zoos are not. Who acts: associations, check care. 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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 (associations, check care), 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:11 # text = Good zoos are accredited by associations such as the AZA in America, BIAZA in Britain and Ireland, EAZA in Europe and the ZAA in Australia, which check care, safety and conservation; many roadside zoos are not. # 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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 accredited accredit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 associations association NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 10 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 AZA AZA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 BIAZA BIAZA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 EAZA EAZA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ZAA ZAA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int 30 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 conservation conservation NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 roadside roadside NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 39 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 42 . . 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 | **not** **accredit** | present · passive | associations such the AZA in America and check care and safety and conservation | Good zoos | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **check** | | check care and safety and conservation | | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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