--- title: Modern zoos say they exist for conservation, education, research and… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: Modern zoos say they exist for conservation, education, research and helping people love animals; the oldest zoo still open is Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, opened in 1752. Who acts: Modern zoos, Zoos, research, people. 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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 (Modern zoos, Zoos, research, 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:5 # text = Modern zoos say they exist for conservation, education, research and helping people love animals; the oldest zoo still open is Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, opened in 1752. # 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 Modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 conservation conservation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 research research NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 Tiergarten Tiergarten PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 25 Schönbrunn Schönbrunn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Vienna Vienna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 1752 1752 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Modern zoos | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **exist** | present | Zoos *= zoo* | | | | | for conservation and education and research | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | gerund | research *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **love** | present | people | animals | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | the oldest zoo | Tiergarten | | Vienna | | | tree rules | | 6 | **open** | participle | | Tiergarten *not said here* | | 1752 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1752=Location | 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. 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