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title: Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant pa… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds. Who acts: Ueno Zoo, giant panda twins. 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 w
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# Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 13

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Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds.

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**Who acts:** Ueno Zoo, giant panda twins · **What happens:** open, be, bear, draw · **To what, where:** 1882, oldest zoo, giant panda twins, 2021, huge crowds

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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 (Ueno Zoo, giant panda twins), 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:13
# text = Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ueno	Ueno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1882	1882	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Ueno Zoo in Tokyo |  |  | 1882 |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in 1882=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ueno Zoo in Tokyo *not said here* | Japan's oldest zoo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | giant panda twins *not said here* |  | 2021; there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **draw** | past | giant panda twins | huge crowds |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×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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