Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 7

A keeper never goes into the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger while it is there; the animal is first moved through slide doors, with two-step locks, checks, radios and keepers often working in pairs.

Who acts: keeper, animal, keepers · What happens: not go, be, move, work · To what, where: den, animal, slide doors

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 (keeper, animal, keepers), 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 goes	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 goes	advmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 den	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 den	det
7	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 animal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 den	nmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 tiger	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tiger	det
14	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 animal	nmod
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 there	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 there	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 goes	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 moved	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 animal	det
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moved	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 moved	aux:pass
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 moved	advmod
24	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 goes	parataxis
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 doors	case
26	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doors	compound
27	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 moved	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 locks	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	33 locks	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 step	nummod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 two	punct
32	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 locks	compound
33	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 doors	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 checks	punct
35	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 locks	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 radios	punct
37	radios	radio	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 checks	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 keepers	cc
39	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 checks	conj
40	often	often	ADV	_	41 working	advmod
41	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 keepers	acl
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 pairs	case
43	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 working	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	present	a keeper		the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into den=Initial_Location
2	is	present	animal			there property	tree rules
3	move	present · passive		the animal	slide doors and step locks and checks and radios and keepers	first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme through door=Trajectory
4	work	gerund	keepers not said here			in pairs; often property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pair=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:7.

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 ×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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