Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 11

Keepers hide medicine in favourite foods, like a pill in a grape, because animals spit out bitter pills, and some animals get clever at eating around them.

Who acts: Keepers, animals · What happens: hide, spit out, get, eat · To what, where: medicine, favourite foods, bitter pills

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 (Keepers, animals), 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	2 hide	nsubj
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 foods	case
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foods	amod
6	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pill	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 pill	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pill	det
10	pill	pill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 grape	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grape	det
13	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pill	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spit	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 spit	mark
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spit	nsubj
17	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hide	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 spit	compound:prt
19	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pills	amod
20	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spit	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 animals	det
24	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hide	conj
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 get	xcomp
27	at	at	SCONJ	_	28 eating	mark
28	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 clever	advcl
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eating	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Keepers	medicine	favourite foods	like a pill in a grape	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient in food=Location
2	spit out	present	animals	bitter pills			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pill=Theme
3	get	present	some animals			clever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	eat	gerund	some animals not said here			around keepers = keeper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.

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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