--- title: For about 600 years English kings kept lions, a polar bear and an el… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: For about 600 years English kings kept lions, a polar bear and an elephant at the Tower of London; the polar bear was allowed to fish in the River Thames on a long chain. Who acts: English kings, polar bear. 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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 (English kings, polar bear), 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:6 # text = For about 600 years English kings kept lions, a polar bear and an elephant at the Tower of London; the polar bear was allowed to fish in the River Thames on a long chain. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 8 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 fish fish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 31 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | English kings | lions and a polar bear and a elephant | | the Tower of London | year | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme at tower=Location | | 2 | **allow** | past · passive | | the polar bear | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **fish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the polar bear *not said here* | | | River | | on a long chain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say.lesson:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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