Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 7
Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are good for their teeth, and vultures are fed whole dead animals too.
Who acts: fur · What happens: feed, be · To what, where: Big cats, vultures
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 (fur), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fed | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 fed | advmod |
| 5 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 carcasses | amod |
| 7 | carcasses | carcass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carcasses | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fur | cc |
| 11 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bones | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 good | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fur | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 good | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fed | cc |
| 21 | vultures | vulture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fed | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fed | aux:pass |
| 23 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fed | conj |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animals | amod |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animals | amod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fed | obj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 fed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present · passive | Big cats | often property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient carcass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | fur | for cats's teeth; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feed | present · passive | vultures | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient animal=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:7.
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): no change. 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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