--- title: The Bronx Zoo in New York opened in 1899 and is run by the Wildlife… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics description: The Bronx Zoo in New York opened in 1899 and is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which also funds and runs conservation work in many countries; in 1907 it sent bison to the Great Plains to help save the American bison. Who acts: Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, work. 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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 (Bronx Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, work), 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:5 # text = The Bronx Zoo in New York opened in 1899 and is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which also funds and runs conservation work in many countries; in 1907 it sent bison to the Great Plains to help save the American bison. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Bronx bronx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 New New PROPN NNP _ 6 amod _ _ 6 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1899 1899 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Wildlife Wildlife PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 Conservation conservation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 funds fund VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 conservation conservation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 1907 1907 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 34 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Plains plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 41 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the Bronx Zoo in New York | | | 1899 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1899=Location | | 2 | **run** | present · passive | the Wildlife Conservation Society | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fund** | present | the Wildlife Conservation Society | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | present | the Wildlife Conservation Society *not said here* | conservation work | | many countries | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent work=Theme in country=Trajectory | | 5 | **send** | past | work | bison | | 1907 | | to the Great Plains | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bison=Theme in 1907=Destination | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | work *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **save** | infinitive | work *not said here* | the American bison | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bison=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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/4/) - next →: [Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk/)