Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 10
Zoos have scales of every size, from tiny bird scales to platforms for elephants, because weight shows health and is needed to get medicine doses right, and elephants are trained to step on for a treat.
Who acts: Zoos, weight, elephants · What happens: have, show, need, get, train, step on · To what, where: scales, health, medicine doses, elephants
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 (Zoos, weight, elephants), 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 | Zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 size | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 size | det |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scales | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scales | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 scales | case |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scales | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scales | compound |
| 11 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scales | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 platforms | case |
| 13 | platforms | platform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scales | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 elephants | case |
| 15 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 platforms | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shows | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 shows | mark |
| 18 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shows | nsubj |
| 19 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | advcl |
| 20 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shows | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 needed | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 needed | aux:pass |
| 23 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 shows | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 needed | advcl |
| 26 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doses | compound |
| 27 | doses | dose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 get | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 trained | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 trained | cc |
| 31 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 trained | aux:pass |
| 33 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 step | mark |
| 35 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 trained | xcomp |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 step | compound:prt |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 treat | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 treat | det |
| 39 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 step | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Zoos | scales of every size and tiny bird scales to platforms for elephants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient | ||||
| 2 | show | present | weight | health | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent health=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | need | present · passive | weight not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | weight not said here | medicine doses | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dose=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | train | present · passive | elephants | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | step on | to-infinitive | elephants not said here | for a treat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:10.
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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