Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 5

Food is cut to suit each mouth: tiny pieces for small beaks and big pieces for apes, so they hold, bite and work as in the wild.

Who acts: apes · What happens: cut, suit, hold, bite, work · To what, where: Food, mouth

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 (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	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 suit	mark
5	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	advcl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 mouth	det
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suit	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pieces	punct
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pieces	amod
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 beaks	case
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beaks	amod
13	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pieces	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pieces	cc
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pieces	amod
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pieces	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 apes	case
18	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pieces	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hold	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 hold	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hold	nsubj
22	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bite	punct
24	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hold	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 work	cc
26	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hold	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 wild	case
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wild	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wild	det
30	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hold	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	present · passive		Food		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	suit	to-infinitive		each mouth		tree rules
3	hold	present	apes = ape		as the wild	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bite	present	apes = ape not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	work	present	apes = ape not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:5.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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