Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 1

The hardest part is that a patient cannot say where it hurts and may be big or dangerous, so vets rely on keepers' notes, weight, dung samples and training, and use sleep medicine only when an animal cannot be handled safely.

Who acts: patient, vets, keepers · What happens: be, not say, hurt, rely, use, not handle · To what, where: hardest part, sleep medicine, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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 (patient, vets, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 patient	det
7	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 part	ccomp
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 hurts	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurts	nsubj
13	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 big	cc
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 big	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 big	cop
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hurts	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 dangerous	cc
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 big	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rely	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 rely	advmod
22	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rely	nsubj
23	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 notes	case
25	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 notes	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 keepers	case
27	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rely	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 weight	punct
29	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 notes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 samples	punct
31	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 samples	compound
32	samples	sample	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 weight	appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 training	cc
34	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 samples	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 use	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 use	cc
37	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rely	conj
38	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 medicine	compound
39	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 use	obj
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 when	advmod
41	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 handled	mark
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 animal	det
43	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 handled	nsubj:pass
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 handled	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 handled	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 handled	aux:pass
47	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 use	advcl
48	safely	safely	ADV	_	47 handled	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the hardest part		tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	can	a patient			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hurt	present	patient			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	may	patient not said here		big property	tree rules
5	be		patient not said here			tree rules
6	rely	present	vets		on keepers's notes and weight	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on note=Theme
7	use	present	vets not said here	sleep medicine		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
8	not handle	can · passive		a animal	safely property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	note		keepers			nom note «communication 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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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