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title: Taronga Zoo in Sydney sits on a hill above the harbour; it runs a wi… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taronga Zoo in Sydney sits on a hill above the harbour; it runs a wildlife hospital and breeding programmes for Australian animals like the corroboree frog and the platypus. Who acts: Taronga Zoo, harbour. A sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put rig
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# Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 4

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Taronga Zoo in Sydney sits on a hill above the harbour; it runs a wildlife hospital and breeding programmes for Australian animals like the corroboree frog and the platypus.

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**Who acts:** Taronga Zoo, harbour · **What happens:** sit, run · **To what, where:** hill, wildlife hospital

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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 (Taronga Zoo, harbour), 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:4
# text = Taronga Zoo in Sydney sits on a hill above the harbour; it runs a wildlife hospital and breeding programmes for Australian animals like the corroboree frog and the platypus.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Taronga	Taronga	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	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	programmes	programme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	corroboree	corroboree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **sit** | present | Taronga Zoo in Sydney |  |  | a hill above the harbour |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 2 | **run** | present | harbour | a wildlife hospital and breeding programmes for Australian animals like the corroboree frog and the platypus |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hospital=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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**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:4`.

**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 ×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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