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title: In 1998 about 30 Przewalski's horses were let go in the zone; they g… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1998 about 30 Przewalski's horses were let go in the zone; they grew to over a hundred and use old barns as shelter from heat and flies, filmed by cameras hidden in the buildings. Who acts: 30 horses, horses. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is st
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 11

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In 1998 about 30 Przewalski's horses were let go in the zone; they grew to over a hundred and use old barns as shelter from heat and flies, filmed by cameras hidden in the buildings.

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**Who acts:** 30 horses, horses · **What happens:** let, go, grow, use, film, hide · **To what, where:** 30 horses, 1998, zone, old barns, heat, flies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (30 horses, horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:11
# text = In 1998 about 30 Przewalski's horses were let go in the zone; they grew to over a hundred and use old barns as shelter from heat and flies, filmed by cameras hidden in the buildings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	Przewalski	Przewalski	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:agent	_	_
35	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **let** | past · passive |  | Przewalski's 30 horses |  | 1998 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Przewalski's 30 horses *not said here* |  |  | the zone |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in zone=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | to a hundred | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | horses *= horse* *not said here* | old barns |  | heat and flies |  | as shelter | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent barn=Duration as shelter=Attribute |
| 5 | **film** | participle |  | flies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hide** | participle |  | cameras *not said here* |  | the buildings |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in building=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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**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): no change. **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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