Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 6

Cleaning is a big part of the job, and dung is checked, because its look and amount tell keepers about an animal's digestion and health; some zoos sell «zoo poo» compost from plant-eaters to gardeners.

Who acts: Cleaning, look, zoos, animal · What happens: be, check, tell, sell, digest · To what, where: big part, dung, keepers, poo compost, gardeners, plant eaters · 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 (Cleaning, look, zoos, 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	Cleaning	Cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 job	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 checked	cc
11	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checked	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 checked	aux:pass
13	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 part	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 tell	mark
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 look	nmod:poss
17	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 amount	cc
19	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	conj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 checked	advcl
21	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	26 digestion	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 animal	det
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 digestion	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 animal	case
26	digestion	digestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 health	cc
28	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 digestion	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 sell	punct
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 zoos	det
31	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sell	nsubj
32	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 checked	conj
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 poo	punct
34	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 poo	compound
35	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 compost	compound
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 poo	punct
37	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sell	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 eaters	case
39	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eaters	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 plant	punct
41	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sell	obl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 gardeners	case
43	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sell	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cleaning	a big part			of the job	tree rules
2	check	present · passive		dung				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	animal's look and amount	keepers			about a animal's digestion and health	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient about digestion=Topic
4	sell	present	some zoos	poo compost	gardeners	plant eaters		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent compost=Theme to gardener=Recipient
5	digest		a animal					nom digestion «process transitive»: poss=agent

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:6.

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 ×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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