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title: The Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild by 1972, but z… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild by 1972, but zoo-bred animals were released in Oman from 1982, and it moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2011; seen from the side its two long straight horns can look like one, and some think the unicorn legend came from it. Who acts: oryx, t
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# Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 13

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The Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild by 1972, but zoo-bred animals were released in Oman from 1982, and it moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2011; seen from the side its two long straight horns can look like one, and some think the unicorn legend came from it.

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**Who acts:** oryx, two long straight horns, some, unicorn legend · **What happens:** hunt, breed, release, move, see, look · **To what, where:** Arabian oryx, wild, bred animals, Oman, endangered, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 (oryx, two long straight horns, some, unicorn legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:13
# text = The Arabian oryx was hunted to extinction in the wild by 1972, but zoo-bred animals were released in Oman from 1982, and it moved from endangered to vulnerable in 2011; seen from the side its two long straight horns can look like one, and some think the unicorn legend came from it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 078-conservation-animals-come-back.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oryx	oryx	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1972	1972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	endangered	endangered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	vulnerable	vulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
42	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
47	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	nsubj	_	_
52	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	ccomp	_	_
57	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hunt** | past · passive |  | the Arabian oryx |  | the wild |  | to extinction; by 1972 | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in wild=Location |
| 2 | **breed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **release** | past · passive |  | bred animals |  | Oman |  | from 1982 | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **move** | past | oryx |  |  | endangered |  | to vulnerable; in 2011 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from endangered=Source to vulnerable=Trajectory in 2011=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | participle |  |  |  | the side |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **look** | can | oryx's two long straight horns |  |  |  |  | like one | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | past | the unicorn legend |  |  | oryx |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial\_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): R5-strong ×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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