Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 2

Feeding is also a job for the brain: gorillas find their food scattered in the grass, apes get big pieces to hold and bite, and big cats even have days with no food at all, just like their wild cousins.

Who acts: Feeding, gorillas, food, apes, big pieces, big cats · What happens: be, find, scatter, get, hold, bite · To what, where: job, food, grass, big pieces

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 (Feeding, gorillas, food, apes), 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	Feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 job	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 job	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 job	det
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 brain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brain	det
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 job	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
10	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	nsubj
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	parataxis
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod:poss
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 find	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scattered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
19	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 job	conj
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pieces	amod
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hold	mark
24	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bite	cc
26	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hold	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cats	amod
30	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	nsubj
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 have	advmod
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 get	conj
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 food	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 food	det
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 food	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cousins	punct
40	just	just	ADV	_	44 cousins	advmod
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 cousins	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 cousins	nmod:poss
43	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cousins	amod
44	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 job	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Feeding	a job			for the brain	tree rules
2	find	present	gorillas	gorillas's food				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent food=Attribute clause=Theme
3	scatter	participle	gorillas's food not said here		the grass			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in grass=Destination
4	get	present	apes	big pieces				tree rules
5	hold	to-infinitive	big pieces not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bite	infinitive	big pieces not said here					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	big cats			day	with no food at all; like cats's wild cousins	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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, R8-pos-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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