Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 12
Some zoos run hospitals for hurt wild animals like hedgehogs, owls and foxes, hurt by cars, cats, nets and garden strimmers; in Britain hedgehogs have become much rarer, so every one saved counts.
Who acts: zoos, hedgehogs, one · What happens: run, hurt, become, save, count · To what, where: hospitals, hedgehogs, Britain, one
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, hedgehogs, one), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 zoos | det |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | nsubj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 animals | amod |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 hedgehogs | case |
| 10 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 owls | punct |
| 12 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hedgehogs | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 foxes | cc |
| 14 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hedgehogs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurt | punct |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hedgehogs | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 cars | case |
| 18 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurt | obl:agent |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cats | punct |
| 20 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nets | punct |
| 22 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hedgehogs | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strimmers | cc |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strimmers | compound |
| 25 | strimmers | strimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hedgehogs | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 hedgehogs | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Britain | case |
| 28 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 become | obl |
| 29 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 become | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | aux |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 run | parataxis |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 rarer | advmod |
| 33 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 become | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saved | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 counts | advmod |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 one | det |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 counts | nsubj |
| 38 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 one | acl |
| 39 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | some zoos | hospitals | for hurt wild animals like hedgehogs and owls and foxes and nets and garden strimmers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hospital=Product for animal=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | hedgehogs and owls and foxes and nets and garden strimmers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | become | present · perfect | hedgehogs | in Britain result; rare property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in britain=Result | ||||
| 5 | save | participle | every one not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | count | present | every one | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:12.
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. 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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