Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 1

Then comes the real work: shovelling dung, scrubbing pools, cutting food, writing notes, and every day of the year, Christmas included, because animals need care whatever the date.

Who acts: Christmas, animals · What happens: come, scrub, cut, write, include, need · To what, where: real work, care

This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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 (Christmas, animals), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dung	punct
7	shovelling	shovelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dung	compound
8	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pools	punct
10	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 pools	amod
11	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dung	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cutting	punct
13	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 food	amod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dung	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 notes	punct
16	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 notes	amod
17	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dung	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 included	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 included	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 included	obl:unmarked
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 year	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
26	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 included	nsubj
27	included	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 need	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 need	mark
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 need	nsubj
31	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 need	obj
33	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 need	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 date	det
35	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 whatever	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	present		the real work and shovelling dung and scrubbing pools and cutting food and writing notes	then	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme
2	scrub	gerund				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	cut	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	write	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	include	past	Christmas		day	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	need	present	animals	care		tree rules

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:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-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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