Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 3

In Madagascar the zoo animals slip out at night and ride the subway to the city; real escapes are rare, and zoos practise for them like a school fire drill, with teams, radios and nets.

Who acts: zoo animals, real escapes, zoos · What happens: slip out, ride, be, practise · To what, where: subway, city

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 (zoo animals, real escapes, zoos), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Madagascar	case
2	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slip	nsubj
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	PART	_	6 slip	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ride	cc
11	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slip	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 subway	det
13	subway	subway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rare	punct
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 escapes	amod
19	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rare	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rare	cop
21	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slip	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 practise	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 practise	cc
24	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 practise	nsubj
25	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rare	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 practise	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	32 drill	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drill	det
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drill	compound
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drill	compound
32	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 practise	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 teams	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 teams	case
35	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 drill	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 radios	punct
37	radios	radio	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 teams	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 nets	cc
39	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 radios	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	present	the zoo animals			night	in Madagascar	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in madagascar=Attribute
2	ride	present	the zoo animals not said here	the subway	the city			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subway=Theme to city=Trajectory
3	is	present	real escapes				rare property	tree rules
4	practise	present	zoos				for escapes = escape; like a school fire drill with teams and radios and nets	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:3.

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 ×2, 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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