--- title: In the UK every zoo needs a licence and regular inspections under th… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK every zoo needs a licence and regular inspections under the Zoo Licensing Act of 1981, and some zoos have been closed after failing them. Who acts: zoo. 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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 (zoo), 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:15 # text = In the UK every zoo needs a licence and regular inspections under the Zoo Licensing Act of 1981, and some zoos have been closed after failing them. # 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 ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 licence licence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 inspections inspection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 14 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 Licensing Licensing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 26 after after SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 failing fail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | every zoo | a licence and regular inspections | | the UK | | the Licensing Act of 1981 *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot licence=Theme | | 2 | **close** | present · perfect · passive | | some zoos | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **fail** | gerund | | aquarium | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | 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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:15`. **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 ×4. **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: [Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/14/) - next →: [Zoos in Australia and around the world…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/)