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title: Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals in liquid nit… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics
description: Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals in liquid nitrogen, which may help to breed more animals later; the northern white rhino, with only two females left, may be helped this way. Who acts: Frozen zoos, liquid nitrogen. A sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, cl
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 11

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Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals in liquid nitrogen, which may help to breed more animals later; the northern white rhino, with only two females left, may be helped this way.

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**Who acts:** Frozen zoos, liquid nitrogen · **What happens:** keep, help, breed, leave · **To what, where:** cells, liquid nitrogen, more animals, two females, northern white rhino

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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 (Frozen zoos, liquid nitrogen), 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:11
# text = Frozen zoos keep cells, eggs and sperm of rare animals in liquid nitrogen, which may help to breed more animals later; the northern white rhino, with only two females left, may be helped this way.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
8	sperm	sperm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | present | Frozen zoos | cells of rare animals and eggs and sperm |  | liquid nitrogen |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cell=Theme in nitrogen=Location |
| 2 | **help** | may | liquid nitrogen |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **breed** | to-infinitive | liquid nitrogen *not said here* | more animals |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | two females *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | may · passive |  | the northern white rhino with two females |  |  |  | this way *obl* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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