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title: Some zoos run breeding programmes that have helped animals such as t… — Check the claim, not the person · tree and pragmatics
description: Some zoos run breeding programmes that have helped animals such as the Arabian oryx and the California condor, though people still argue about zoos. Who acts: zoos, breeding programmes, people. A sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Check the claim, not the person, sentence 20

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Some zoos run breeding programmes that have helped animals such as the Arabian oryx and the California condor, though people still argue about zoos.

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**Who acts:** zoos, breeding programmes, people · **What happens:** run, help, argue · **To what, where:** breeding programmes, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Check the claim, not the person» of the world 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 (zoos, breeding programmes, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:20
# text = Some zoos run breeding programmes that have helped animals such as the Arabian oryx and the California condor, though people still argue about zoos.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
5	programmes	programme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	oryx	oryx	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **run** | present | some zoos | breeding programmes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme programme=Trajectory |
| 2 | **help** | present · perfect | breeding programmes |  | animals |  |  | such the Arabian oryx and the California condor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  | still | about zoos | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about zoo=Topic |

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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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**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:world:188-check-the-claim-not-the-person.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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