Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 14

Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and animals have choked on plastic bags and coins thrown by visitors.

Who acts: food · What happens: poison, make, carry, choke, throw · To what, where: animals, visitors, germs, plastic bags

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 (food), 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	Visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 food	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Visitors	case
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poison	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poison	aux
5	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poison	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 poison	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 carry	cc
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	conj
13	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carry	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 choked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 choked	cc
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 choked	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 choked	aux
18	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 poison	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bags	case
20	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bags	compound
21	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 choked	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 coins	cc
23	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bags	conj
24	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 bags	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 visitors	case
26	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thrown	obl:agent
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poison	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	poison	can	Visitors's food	animals			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	make	infinitive	Visitors's food not said here	visitors = visitor		fat property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	carry	infinitive	Visitors's food not said here	germs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
4	choke	present · perfect · passive		animals	plastic bags and coins		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
5	throw	participle		plastic bags and coins not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:14.

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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