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title: Chester Zoo is the most visited zoo in the UK; it was founded by Geo… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics
description: Chester Zoo is the most visited zoo in the UK; it was founded by George Mottershead, whose story was told in the TV series «Our Zoo», and it leads many breeding programmes. Who acts: Chester Zoo, George, bear. A sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» of the biology course of Mova
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# Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 10

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Chester Zoo is the most visited zoo in the UK; it was founded by George Mottershead, whose story was told in the TV series «Our Zoo», and it leads many breeding programmes.

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**Who acts:** Chester Zoo, George, bear · **What happens:** visit, be, found, tell, lead · **To what, where:** visited zoo, UK, bear, story, TV series, many breeding programmes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chester Zoo, George, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:10
# text = Chester Zoo is the most visited zoo in the UK; it was founded by George Mottershead, whose story was told in the TV series «Our Zoo», and it leads many breeding programmes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Chester	Chester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	Mottershead	Mottershead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
26	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	programmes	programme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Chester Zoo | the visited zoo |  | the UK |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **found** | past · passive | George | bear |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | story |  | the TV series |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **lead** | present | bear | many breeding programmes |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent programme=Theme |

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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.

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**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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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