--- title: Zoos breed rare small animals like Partula snails, nearly wiped out… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Zoos breed rare small animals like Partula snails, nearly wiped out on their islands by one predator snail that people brought in, and the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which was thought extinct until a few were found on a sea rock in 2001. Who acts: Zoos, people. 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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 (Zoos, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:16 # text = Zoos breed rare small animals like Partula snails, nearly wiped out on their islands by one predator snail that people brought in, and the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which was thought extinct until a few were found on a sea rock in 2001. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 breed breed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Partula Partula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 predator predator NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:agent _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 in in ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 27 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 Howe Howe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 until until SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nmod 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | present | Zoos | rare small animals | | | | like Partula snails | tree rules | | 2 | **wipe out** | participle | | Partula snails *not said here* | | zoos's islands | | nearly *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on island=Trajectory | | 3 | **bring in** | past | people | one predator snail | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Asset | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the Island stick insect | | | | extinct *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past · passive | | a few | | a sea rock | | in 2001 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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