Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 4

A keeper's day starts before the zoo opens with checking and counting every animal, then cleaning, feeding and writing notes, and keepers work in shifts because animals need care every day, weekends and Christmas too.

Who acts: day, zoo, keepers, animals · What happens: start, open, check, count, clean, feed · To what, where: animal, notes, care

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 (day, zoo, keepers, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 keeper	det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 keeper	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 opens	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opens	nsubj
9	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 starts	advcl
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 checking	mark
11	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 starts	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 counting	cc
13	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 checking	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 animal	det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counting	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cleaning	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 cleaning	advmod
18	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 checking	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feeding	punct
20	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cleaning	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 writing	cc
22	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 feeding	conj
23	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 writing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 work	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 work	cc
26	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 work	nsubj
27	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 starts	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 shifts	case
29	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 work	obl
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 need	mark
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 need	nsubj
32	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 work	advcl
33	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 need	obj
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 need	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 weekends	punct
37	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 day	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Christmas	cc
39	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 weekends	conj
40	too	too	ADV	_	37 weekends	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	a keeper's day				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	open	present	the zoo				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	check	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	count	gerund		every animal			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
5	clean	gerund			then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	feed	gerund					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
7	write	gerund		notes			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
8	work	present	keepers			in shifts	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shift=Theme
9	need	present	animals	care	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

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:4.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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