--- title: Some people think keeping wild animals in captivity is wrong even wi… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics description: Some people think keeping wild animals in captivity is wrong even with good care, and some want zoos turned into sanctuaries that only rescue animals. Who acts: people, keeping, some, zoos. 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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, keeping, some, zoos), 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:8 # text = Some people think keeping wild animals in captivity is wrong even with good care, and some want zoos turned into sanctuaries that only rescue animals. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 5 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 captivity captivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 sanctuaries sanctuary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 rescue rescue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | | wild animals | | captivity | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in captivity=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | keeping | | | | | with good care; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **want** | present | some | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **turn** *not said to happen* | participle | zoos | | | sanctuaries | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sanctuary=Trajectory | | 6 | **rescue** | present | sanctuaries | animals | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:8`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/7/) - next →: [Why zoos exist and what critics say, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/)