Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 9

Keepers usually study animal care or biology and start as volunteers or trainees, and many specialise in birds, reptiles or big mammals; the job needs knowledge, safety and lots of patience.

Who acts: Keepers, many, job · What happens: study, start, specialise, need · To what, where: animal care, knowledge

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 (Keepers, many, job), 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	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 study	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 study	advmod
3	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	compound
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 study	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 biology	cc
7	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 start	cc
9	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 study	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 volunteers	case
11	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 start	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 trainees	cc
13	trainees	trainee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 volunteers	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 specialise	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 specialise	cc
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 specialise	nsubj
17	specialise	specialise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 study	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 birds	case
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 specialise	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reptiles	punct
21	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 birds	conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 mammals	cc
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mammals	amod
24	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 birds	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 needs	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 job	det
27	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needs	nsubj
28	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 study	parataxis
29	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needs	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 safety	punct
31	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knowledge	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lots	cc
33	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 knowledge	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 patience	case
35	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lots	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 study	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	study	present	Keepers	animal care or biology	usually property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Topic
2	start	present	Keepers not said here		as volunteers or trainees	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	specialise	present	many		in birds and reptiles or big mammals	tree rules
4	need	present	the job	knowledge and safety and lots of patience		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot knowledge=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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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