Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 14
Keepers build trust with animals over months and years through calm, regular routines, which makes health checks easier, and many keepers find it hard to say goodbye when an animal moves to another zoo.
Who acts: Keepers, calm regular routines, many keepers, animal · What happens: build, make, find, say, move · To what, where: trust, calm regular routines, health checks, animal, goodbye, zoo · 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, calm regular routines, many keepers, animal), 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 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 build | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trust | obl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 years | cc |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 months | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 routines | case |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 routines | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calm | punct |
| 13 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 routines | amod |
| 14 | routines | routine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 routines | acl:relcl |
| 18 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 checks | compound |
| 19 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 makes | obj |
| 20 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keepers | amod |
| 24 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 find | nsubj |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 build | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | expl |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 find | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 say | mark |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hard | csubj |
| 30 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 say | obj |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 moves | advmod |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 animal | det |
| 33 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moves | nsubj |
| 34 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 say | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 zoo | case |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 zoo | det |
| 37 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moves | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Keepers | trust | calm regular routines | month | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product | ||
| 2 | make | present | calm regular routines | health checks | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset check=Product | |||
| 3 | find | present | many keepers | animal | hard property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | |||||
| 5 | move | present | a animal | another zoo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to zoo=Trajectory |
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:14.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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