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title: London Zoo opened in 1828 as a zoo for science, set up by the Zoolog… — Famous zoos in the USA and the UK · tree and pragmatics
description: London Zoo opened in 1828 as a zoo for science, set up by the Zoological Society of London, which still does research and conservation worldwide. Who acts: London Zoo, Zoological Society. A sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 7

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London Zoo opened in 1828 as a zoo for science, set up by the Zoological Society of London, which still does research and conservation worldwide.

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**Who acts:** London Zoo, Zoological Society · **What happens:** open, set up, do · **To what, where:** 1828, science, research

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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 (London Zoo, Zoological Society), 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:7
# text = London Zoo opened in 1828 as a zoo for science, set up by the Zoological Society of London, which still does research and conservation worldwide.
# 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	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1828	1828	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **open** | past | London Zoo |  |  | 1828 |  | as a zoo for science | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1828=Location |
| 2 | **set up** | participle |  | science *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | present | the Zoological Society of London | research and conservation |  |  | still | worldwide *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Eventuality |

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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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**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.

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