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title: Hundreds of dogs in the zone come from pets left behind in 1986; sci… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of dogs in the zone come from pets left behind in 1986; scientists study their DNA, and volunteers vaccinate and feed them. Who acts: Hundreds, scientists, volunteers. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of the biology course o
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 16

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Hundreds of dogs in the zone come from pets left behind in 1986; scientists study their DNA, and volunteers vaccinate and feed them.

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**Who acts:** Hundreds, scientists, volunteers · **What happens:** come, leave behind, study, vaccinate, feed · **To what, where:** pets, 1986, DNA, scientists

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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 (Hundreds, scientists, volunteers), 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:16
# text = Hundreds of dogs in the zone come from pets left behind in 1986; scientists study their DNA, and volunteers vaccinate and feed them.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1986	1986	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
21	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	vaccinate	vaccinate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
24	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | present | Hundreds of dogs in the zone |  |  |  |  | from pets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pet=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave behind** | participle |  | pets *not said here* |  |  |  | in 1986 *result*; behind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1986=Result |
| 3 | **study** | present | scientists | scientists's DNA |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dna=Topic |
| 4 | **vaccinate** | present | volunteers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feed** | present | volunteers *not said here* | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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