Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 6

Many zoos give big cats one or two fast days a week, because wild cats do not eat every day and fast days stop zoo cats getting fat.

Who acts: Many zoos, wild cats, fast days, zoo cats · What happens: give, not eat, stop, get · To what, where: big cats, zoo cats

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, wild cats, fast days, zoo cats), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	iobj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	conj
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obl:unmarked
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 eat	mark
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cats	amod
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stop	cc
23	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 days	amod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stop	nsubj
25	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	conj
26	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cats	compound
27	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stop	obj
28	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 cats	acl
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 getting	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Many zoos		big cats	day; week		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	not eat	present · do-support	wild cats			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	fast days	zoo cats				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cat=Eventuality
4	get	gerund	zoo cats not said here				fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:6.

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 ×2. 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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