Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 11

Many animals have quiet off-show areas where they can rest and hide; good zoos let animals choose whether to be seen, which is why you sometimes see an empty enclosure.

Who acts: Many animals, keepers, good zoos, animals, you · What happens: have, rest, hide, let, choose, see · To what, where: quiet show areas, empty enclosure

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 (Many animals, keepers, good zoos, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 areas	amod
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 areas	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 off	punct
7	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 areas	compound
8	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 rest	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rest	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 rest	aux
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 areas	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hide	cc
14	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rest	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 zoos	punct
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 zoos	amod
17	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 choose	nsubj
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 seen	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	24 seen	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 choose	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 why	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 why	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 why	cop
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 see	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 see	advmod
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	advcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 enclosure	det
33	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 enclosure	amod
34	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many animals	quiet show areas		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient
2	rest	can	keepers = keeper			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	infinitive	keepers = keeper not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let	present	good zoos			tree rules
5	choose	infinitive	animals			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive · passive	animals not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
7	is	present			why property	tree rules
8	see	infinitive	you	a empty enclosure	sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enclosure=Stimulus

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:11.

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): 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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