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title: Scientists are trying new ways to look after life on Earth: freezing… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists are trying new ways to look after life on Earth: freezing the cells of rare animals, building bridges for deer over roads, growing meat without farms, and even making elephants that look a little like mammoths. Who acts: Scientists, elephants. A sentence of the lesson «The future of life:
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 0

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Scientists are trying new ways to look after life on Earth: freezing the cells of rare animals, building bridges for deer over roads, growing meat without farms, and even making elephants that look a little like mammoths.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, elephants · **What happens:** try, look, freeze, build, grow, make · **To what, where:** new ways, cells, bridges, roads, meat, elephants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (Scientists, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:0
# text = Scientists are trying new ways to look after life on Earth: freezing the cells of rare animals, building bridges for deer over roads, growing meat without farms, and even making elephants that look a little like mammoths.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
20	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
28	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
35	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · progressive | Scientists | new ways |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | new ways *not said here* |  |  | after life | on Earth | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on earth=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | gerund |  | the cells of rare animals |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cell=Result |
| 4 | **build** | gerund |  | bridges |  | roads |  | for deer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bridge=Product for deer=Asset |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund |  | meat |  |  |  | without farms | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | gerund |  | elephants |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product |
| 7 | **look** | present | elephants |  |  |  |  | like mammoths | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R6-punct-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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