Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 2
Picture a gorilla putting its arm through a special sleeve for a blood test, calmly, for a treat: months of training with rewards mean no sleep medicine is needed, which is much safer for the gorilla.
Who acts: you, gorilla, months, treat · What happens: picture, put, mean, need, be · To what, where: gorilla, arm, special sleeve, sleep medicine · 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 (you, gorilla, months, treat), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gorilla | det |
| 3 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gorilla | acl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 sleeve | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sleeve | det |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleeve | amod |
| 10 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 test | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 test | det |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 test | compound |
| 14 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 calmly | punct |
| 16 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treat | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 treat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 treat | det |
| 20 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 months | punct |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 mean | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 training | case |
| 24 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 months | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 rewards | case |
| 26 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 training | nmod |
| 27 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 treat | advcl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 medicine | det |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 medicine | compound |
| 30 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 needed | aux:pass |
| 32 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 mean | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 safer | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 safer | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 safer | cop |
| 36 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 safer | advmod |
| 37 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 treat | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 gorilla | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 gorilla | det |
| 40 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 safer | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a gorilla | calmly property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gorilla=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | gerund | a gorilla not said here | gorilla's arm | a special sleeve | for a blood test | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme through sleeve=Destination | ||
| 3 | mean | present | months of training with rewards | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | need | present · passive | no sleep medicine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | a treat | for the gorilla; safe property | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×2. 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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