--- title: Golden lion tamarins from Brazil fell to about 200 in the wild in th… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Golden lion tamarins from Brazil fell to about 200 in the wild in the 1970s; zoos bred them and returned some to protected forest, and there are now a few thousand. Who acts: Golden lion tamarins, zoos, few thousand. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Golden lion tamarins, zoos, few thousand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:8 # text = Golden lion tamarins from Brazil fell to about 200 in the wild in the 1970s; zoos bred them and returned some to protected forest, and there are now a few thousand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.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 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tamarins tamarin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 1970s 1970s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 now now ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 thousand thousand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | Golden lion tamarins from Brazil | | | the 1970s | | to 200 in the wild | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1970s=Location | | 2 | **breed** | past | zoos | tamarins *= tamarin* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **return** | past | zoos *not said here* | some | | protected forest | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to forest=Destination | | 4 | **protect** | participle | | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | present | a few thousand | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:8`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/7/) - next →: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/)