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title: Przewalski's horses are wild horses from Mongolia that died out in t… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta… · tree and pragmatics
description: Przewalski's horses are wild horses from Mongolia that died out in the wild and survived in zoos; Askania-Nova helped breed them, and some were later let go in the Chornobyl zone. Who acts: horses, wild horses, Askania, some. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great busta
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# Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova, sentence 18

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Przewalski's horses are wild horses from Mongolia that died out in the wild and survived in zoos; Askania-Nova helped breed them, and some were later let go in the Chornobyl zone.

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**Who acts:** horses, wild horses, Askania, some · **What happens:** be, die out, survive, help, breed, let · **To what, where:** wild horses, Mongolia, zoos, horses, some, Chornobyl zone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 (horses, wild horses, Askania, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:18
# text = Przewalski's horses are wild horses from Mongolia that died out in the wild and survived in zoos; Askania-Nova helped breed them, and some were later let go in the Chornobyl zone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Askania	Askania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
22	Nova	Nova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Przewalski's horses | wild horses |  | Mongolia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die out** | past | wild horses |  |  |  |  | in the wild; out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute |
| 3 | **survive** | past | wild horses *not said here* |  |  | zoos |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location |
| 4 | **help** | past | Askania |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **breed** | infinitive | Askania *not said here* | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | past · passive |  | some |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | some *not said here* |  |  | the Chornobyl zone |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in zone=Location |

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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:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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