Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 15

Some zoos have night staff to check animals that are ill or about to give birth, because births often happen at night, and cameras let keepers watch without disturbing the animals.

Who acts: zoos, animals, births, cameras, keepers · What happens: have, check, be, give, happen, let · To what, where: night staff, animals, birth, keepers

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, animals, births, cameras), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 zoos	det
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staff	compound
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 staff	acl
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 ill	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	acl:relcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 about	cc
13	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ill	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 about	xcomp
16	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happen	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 happen	mark
19	births	birth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 happen	nsubj
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 happen	advmod
21	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
26	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 let	nsubj
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
28	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 let	obj
29	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 let	xcomp
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 disturbing	mark
31	disturbing	disturb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 watch	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 animals	det
33	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 disturbing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some zoos	night staff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
2	check	to-infinitive	some zoos not said here	animals			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	is	present	animals			ill property	tree rules
4	be		animals not said here				tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	animals not said here	birth			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
6	happen	present	births		night	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let	present	cameras	keepers			tree rules
8	watch	infinitive	keepers not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
9	disturb	gerund	keepers not said here	the animals			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer

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:15.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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