Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 5

Vets use darts with sleep medicine for animals that cannot be handled safely, because a big wild animal held down awake could hurt itself or people, and every dose must suit the animal's kind and weight.

Who acts: Vets, big wild animal, dose · What happens: use, not handle, hold down, hurt, suit · To what, where: darts, animals, big wild animal, medicine, kind

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 (Vets, big wild animal, dose), 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	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 medicine	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	compound
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 handled	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 handled	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 handled	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 handled	aux:pass
13	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 animals	acl:relcl
14	safely	safely	ADV	_	13 handled	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hurt	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 hurt	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 animal	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animal	amod
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animal	amod
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hurt	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 animal	acl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 held	compound:prt
23	awake	awake	ADV	_	21 held	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hurt	aux
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 hurt	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 people	cc
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 itself	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 suit	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 suit	cc
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 dose	det
32	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 suit	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 suit	aux
34	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hurt	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 animal	det
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kind	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 animal	case
38	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 suit	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 weight	cc
40	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kind	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Vets	darts	with sleep medicine; for animals	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dart=Theme for animal=Eventuality
2	not handle	can · passive		animals	safely property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hold down	participle		a big wild animal not said here	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hurt	could	a big wild animal	medicine		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer itself=Patient
5	suit	must	every dose	the animal's kind and weight		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:5.

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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