--- title: Gerald Durrell founded Jersey Zoo to breed endangered animals, wrote… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics description: Gerald Durrell founded Jersey Zoo to breed endangered animals, wrote funny books about his animal-filled childhood in Greece, and helped save animals like the pink pigeon of Mauritius. Who acts: Gerald. 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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 (Gerald), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:13 # text = Gerald Durrell founded Jersey Zoo to breed endangered animals, wrote funny books about his animal-filled childhood in Greece, and helped save animals like the pink pigeon of Mauritius. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gerald Gerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Durrell Durrell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Jersey Jersey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 breed breed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 endangered endanger ADJ JJ _ 9 amod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 27 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Mauritius Mauritius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past | Gerald | Jersey Zoo | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoo=Patient | | 2 | **breed** | to-infinitive | Gerald *not said here* | endangered animals | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **write** | past | Gerald *not said here* | funny books | | | | about Gerald's filled childhood in Greece | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about childhood=Topic | | 4 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **help** | past | Gerald *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **save** | infinitive | Gerald *not said here* | animals | | | | like the pink pigeon of Mauritius | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:13`. **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 ×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. 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