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title: Edinburgh Zoo is famous for its penguins and had giant pandas; Whips… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics
description: Edinburgh Zoo is famous for its penguins and had giant pandas; Whipsnade, near London, covers about 240 hectares and is one of the largest zoos in Europe. Who acts: Edinburgh Zoo, Whipsnade. A sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 11

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Edinburgh Zoo is famous for its penguins and had giant pandas; Whipsnade, near London, covers about 240 hectares and is one of the largest zoos in Europe.

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**Who acts:** Edinburgh Zoo, Whipsnade · **What happens:** be, have, cover · **To what, where:** giant pandas, 240 hectares, one

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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 (Edinburgh Zoo, Whipsnade), 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:11
# text = Edinburgh Zoo is famous for its penguins and had giant pandas; Whipsnade, near London, covers about 240 hectares and is one of the largest zoos in Europe.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Whipsnade	Whipsnade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	240	240	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hectares	hectare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Edinburgh Zoo |  |  |  |  | for bear's penguins; famous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Edinburgh Zoo *not said here* | giant pandas |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Patient |
| 3 | **cover** | present | Whipsnade near London | 240 hectares |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hectare=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Whipsnade near London *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of the largest zoos in Europe | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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