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title: Zoo research on health, behaviour and breeding can help wild animals… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoo research on health, behaviour and breeding can help wild animals; blood tests on zoo elephants helped scientists understand a deadly elephant virus. Who acts: Zoo research, zoo elephants, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Why zoos exist and what critics say» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Why zoos exist and what critics say, sentence 14

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Zoo research on health, behaviour and breeding can help wild animals; blood tests on zoo elephants helped scientists understand a deadly elephant virus.

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**Who acts:** Zoo research, zoo elephants, scientists · **What happens:** help, understand · **To what, where:** wild animals, scientists, deadly elephant virus

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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 (Zoo research, zoo elephants, scientists), 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:14
# text = Zoo research on health, behaviour and breeding can help wild animals; blood tests on zoo elephants helped scientists understand a deadly elephant virus.
# 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): no change
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **help** | can | Zoo research on health and behaviour and breeding |  | wild animals and blood tests on zoo elephants |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **help** | past | zoo elephants *not said here* | scientists |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **understand** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* | a deadly elephant virus |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer virus=Stimulus |

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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): no change. **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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