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title: Australian zoos often look after Australia's own odd and wonderful a… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Australian zoos often look after Australia's own odd and wonderful animals: Taronga in Sydney has giraffes with the Opera House behind them, Healesville bred the first platypus in a zoo, and Australia Zoo is the home of Steve Irwin's family and its wildlife hospital. Who acts: Australian zoos, Taron
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# Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 0

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Australian zoos often look after Australia's own odd and wonderful animals: Taronga in Sydney has giraffes with the Opera House behind them, Healesville bred the first platypus in a zoo, and Australia Zoo is the home of Steve Irwin's family and its wildlife hospital.

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**Who acts:** Australian zoos, Taronga, Healesville, Australia Zoo · **What happens:** look, have, breed, be · **To what, where:** giraffes, first platypus, zoo, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 (Australian zoos, Taronga, Healesville, Australia Zoo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:0
# text = Australian zoos often look after Australia's own odd and wonderful animals: Taronga in Sydney has giraffes with the Opera House behind them, Healesville bred the first platypus in a zoo, and Australia Zoo is the home of Steve Irwin's family and its wildlife hospital.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Taronga	Taronga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Opera	Opera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
26	Healesville	Healesville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	Steve	Steve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	Irwin	Irwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
45	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | **look** | present | Australian zoos |  |  |  | after Australia's own odd animals | often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | Taronga in Sydney | giraffes |  |  |  | with the Opera House; behind zoos *= zoo* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient |
| 3 | **breed** | past | Healesville | the first platypus |  | a zoo |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Australia Zoo | the home |  |  |  | of Steve's family and home's wildlife hospital | 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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:0`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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