--- title: You can judge a zoo yourself: is it accredited, do the animals have… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: You can judge a zoo yourself: is it accredited, do the animals have space and things to do, and does it say no to selfies with tiger cubs and to visitors tapping on the glass? Who acts: You, animals, thinker, visitors. 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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 (You, animals, thinker, visitors), 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:4 # text = You can judge a zoo yourself: is it accredited, do the animals have space and things to do, and does it say no to selfies with tiger cubs and to visitors tapping on the glass? # 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 ×3 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 accredited accredit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 26 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 28 discourse _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 selfies selfie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 cubs cub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 35 tapping tap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **judge** | can | You | a zoo | | | | yourself *obl* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent zoo=Value | | 2 | **accredit** | present · passive | | thinker | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | the animals | space and things | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the animals *not said here* | space and things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | thinker | | selfies with tiger cubs and visitors | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to selfie=Recipient | | 7 | **tap** | gerund | visitors *not said here* | | | | | on the glass | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on glass=Patient | 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:4`. **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 ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/3/) - next →: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/)