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title: Studies suggest many visitors learn something about animals at zoos,… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics
description: Studies suggest many visitors learn something about animals at zoos, though not all, and critics answer that people can learn from nature films too. Who acts: Studies, many visitors, critics, people. A sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 13

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Studies suggest many visitors learn something about animals at zoos, though not all, and critics answer that people can learn from nature films too.

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**Who acts:** Studies, many visitors, critics, people · **What happens:** suggest, learn, answer · **To what, where:** something, zoos, nature films · **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 (Studies, many visitors, critics, 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:13
# text = Studies suggest many visitors learn something about animals at zoos, though not all, and critics answer that people can learn from nature films too.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **learn** | present | many visitors | something |  | zoos |  | about animals | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | critics |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | can | people |  |  | nature films |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from film=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): 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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