--- title: But some people think it is wrong to keep wild animals at all, even… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: But some people think it is wrong to keep wild animals at all, even well cared for, because they lose their freedom and many are not endangered and will never go home. Who acts: people, many. 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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 (people, many), 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:2 # text = But some people think it is wrong to keep wild animals at all, even well cared for, because they lose their freedom and many are not endangered and will never go home. # 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 ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 csubj _ _ 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 cared care VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 18 for for ADP IN _ 17 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 34 home home ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | wild animals | | all | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme at all=Location | | 4 | **care** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **lose** | present | people | people's freedom | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | many | | | | | endangered *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **go** | future | many *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:2`. **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 ×2. **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: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/1/) - next →: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/)