Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 6
Some apes are trained to put an arm into a special sleeve for blood tests while awake; gorillas often get heart disease, like people, so zoos check their hearts with scans.
Who acts: apes, gorillas, zoos · What happens: train, put, get, check · To what, where: apes, arm, special sleeve, heart disease, hearts
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 (apes, gorillas, zoos), 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 apes | det |
| 2 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trained | aux:pass |
| 4 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trained | xcomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arm | det |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sleeve | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sleeve | det |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sleeve | amod |
| 12 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 tests | case |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tests | compound |
| 15 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 awake | mark |
| 17 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 put | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 19 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trained | parataxis |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disease | compound |
| 23 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 people | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 check | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 check | advmod |
| 29 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 check | nsubj |
| 30 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trained | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 check | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 scans | case |
| 34 | scans | scan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 check | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | present · passive | some apes | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | some apes not said here | a arm | a special sleeve | for blood tests | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | ||
| 3 | get | present | gorillas | heart disease | like people; often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disease=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | check | infinitive | zoos | people's hearts | with scans | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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:6.
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): 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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