Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 13

Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos give it only as a treat; some British zoos stopped giving monkeys bananas and gave leafy vegetables instead.

Who acts: many zoos, British zoos · What happens: breed, be, give, stop · To what, where: Farm fruit, fruit, bananas, monkeys, leafy vegetables

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 (many zoos, British 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	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fruit	compound
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bred	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	aux:pass
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 sweeter	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sweeter	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 sweeter	advmod
8	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bred	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 fruit	case
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fruit	amod
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweeter	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 give	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 zoos	amod
15	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	nsubj
16	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	obj
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 treat	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 treat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 treat	det
21	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stopped	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 zoos	det
24	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 zoos	amod
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stopped	nsubj
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	conj
27	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stopped	xcomp
28	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 giving	iobj
29	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 giving	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stopped	conj
32	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 vegetables	amod
33	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gave	obj
34	instead	instead	ADV	_	31 gave	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bred	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	breed	present · passive		Farm fruit			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				than wild fruit; sweet property	tree rules
3	give	present	many zoos	fruit		as a treat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	stop	past	some British zoos				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	give	gerund	some British zoos not said here	bananas	monkeys		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient banana=Theme
6	give	past	some British zoos not said here	leafy vegetables		instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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