Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 10

Keepers tell animals apart by marks, scars, shape and behaviour, which helps them see who is ill, who is boss and who needs extra care, and some animals also have tiny microchips under the skin, like pet dogs.

Who acts: Keepers, shape, boss, animals · What happens: tell, help, see, be, need, have · To what, where: animals, keepers, boss, extra care, tiny microchips, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Keepers, shape, boss, 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	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obj
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 marks	case
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scars	punct
8	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marks	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shape	punct
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marks	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 behaviour	cc
12	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marks	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 helps	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 helps	nsubj
15	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shape	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helps	obj
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 helps	xcomp
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 ill	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ill	cop
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 see	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boss	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 boss	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 boss	cop
24	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 needs	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 needs	nsubj
27	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 boss	conj
28	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 care	amod
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needs	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 animals	det
33	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	nsubj
34	also	also	ADV	_	35 have	advmod
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 microchips	amod
37	microchips	microchip	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obj
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 skin	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 skin	det
40	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dogs	punct
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 dogs	case
43	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dogs	compound
44	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Keepers		animals		by marks and scars and shape and behaviour; apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
2	help	present	shape	keepers = keeper				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	see	infinitive	keepers = keeper not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present					ill property	tree rules
5	is a	present		boss				tree rules
6	need	present	boss	extra care				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme
7	have	present	some animals	tiny microchips		the skin	like pet dogs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microchip=Patient

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:10.

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, R7-rel-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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