Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 13

Zoos practise escape drills with teams, radios and nets, a bit like fire drills at school; real escapes are rare, and a famous escaper was Ken Allen, an orangutan at San Diego Zoo in the 1980s.

Who acts: Zoos, real escapes, famous escaper · What happens: practise, be · To what, where: escape drills, Ken, 1980s

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 (Zoos, real escapes, famous escaper), 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	2 practise	nsubj
2	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drills	compound
4	drills	drill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 practise	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 teams	case
6	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drills	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 radios	punct
8	radios	radio	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teams	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nets	cc
10	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 radios	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drills	appos
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 drills	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drills	compound
16	drills	drill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bit	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 school	case
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drills	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rare	punct
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 escapes	amod
21	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rare	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rare	cop
23	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 practise	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Ken	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Ken	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 escaper	det
27	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 escaper	amod
28	escaper	escaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Ken	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Ken	cop
30	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 rare	conj
31	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Ken	flat
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Ken	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 orangutan	det
34	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Ken	appos
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 San	case
36	San	San	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 orangutan	nmod
37	Diego	Diego	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 San	flat
38	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 San	flat
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 1980s	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 1980s	det
41	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	30 Ken	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 practise	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	practise	present	Zoos	escape drills		with teams and radios and nets	tree rules
2	is	present	real escapes			rare property	tree rules
3	is a	past	a famous escaper	Ken	the 1980s		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: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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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