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title: Przewalski's horses, the last truly wild horses, died out in the wil… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Przewalski's horses, the last truly wild horses, died out in the wild and were saved by zoos, then brought back to Mongolia and to Xinjiang in China. Who acts: horses, zoos. A sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 14

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Przewalski's horses, the last truly wild horses, died out in the wild and were saved by zoos, then brought back to Mongolia and to Xinjiang in China.

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**Who acts:** horses, zoos · **What happens:** die out, save, bring back · **To what, where:** Mongolia, China

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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, zoos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:14
# text = Przewalski's horses, the last truly wild horses, died out in the wild and were saved by zoos, then brought back to Mongolia and to Xinjiang in China.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.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 ×2, R7-rel-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	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Mongolia	Mongolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Xinjiang	Xinjiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **die out** | past | Przewalski's horses |  |  |  |  | in the wild | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wild=Attribute |
| 2 | **save** | past · passive | zoos |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring back** | participle | zoos *not said here* |  | Mongolia and Xinjiang | China | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mongolia=Destination |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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