Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 11

Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer.

Who acts: Scattering, gorillas · What happens: scatter, make, walk, search, call, forage · To what, where: food, grass, gorillas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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 (Scattering, gorillas), 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	Scattering	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makes	csubj
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scattering	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scattering	obl
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 search	cc
10	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 walk	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 called	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 search	acl:relcl
15	foraging	forage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keeps	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keeps	cc
18	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keeps	obj
20	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keeps	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 longer	case
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 busy	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	gerund		food	the grass		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in grass=Destination
2	make	present	Scattering	gorillas			tree rules
3	walk	infinitive	gorillas not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	search	infinitive	gorillas not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	call	present · passive					tree rules
6	forage	gerund					vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	keep	present	Scattering not said here	gorillas = gorilla		busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.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): no change. 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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