--- title: Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos br… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear. Who acts: Some, zoos, kinds. A sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/) / 4 # The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 4 Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear. **Who acts:** Some, zoos, kinds · **What happens:** be, breed, save, disappear · **To what, where:** legs, kinds This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (Some, zoos, kinds), 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:4 # text = Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rarest rare ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 breed breed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 19 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 disappear disappear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Some | | | | | of all; rare *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **breed** | present | zoos | legs *= leg* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | zoos *not said here* | kinds | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | | 4 | **disappear** | would | kinds | | | | | otherwise *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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