The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 13

Zoos can keep giraffes, zebras and antelopes in one paddock because they eat different plants and do not hunt each other, while lions are kept separately next door.

Who acts: Zoos, giraffes · What happens: keep, eat, not hunt · To what, where: giraffes, one paddock, different plants, other, lions

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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 (Zoos, giraffes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 zebras	punct
6	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giraffes	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 antelopes	cc
8	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giraffes	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 paddock	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 paddock	nummod
11	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	advcl
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plants	amod
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hunt	cc
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hunt	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hunt	advmod
20	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eat	conj
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hunt	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 kept	mark
25	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 kept	aux:pass
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hunt	advcl
28	separately	separately	ADV	_	27 kept	advmod
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 door	amod
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kept	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	can	Zoos	giraffes and zebras and antelopes	one paddock		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme in paddock=Location
2	eat	present	giraffes = giraffe	different plants			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
3	not hunt	present · do-support	giraffes = giraffe not said here	each other			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
4	keep	present · passive		lions		next door obl:unmarked; separately property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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, 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:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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