Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 9

Many zoos breed their own crickets and mealworms, and dust them with vitamin and calcium powder before feeding them to frogs and lizards, because insects alone do not have enough of what those animals need.

Who acts: Many zoos, insects, animals · What happens: breed, dust, feed, not have, need · To what, where: own crickets, rats, frogs, enough

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, insects, animals), 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 breed	nsubj
3	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crickets	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crickets	amod
6	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mealworms	cc
8	mealworms	mealworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crickets	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dust	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dust	cc
11	dust	dust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breed	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dust	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 powder	case
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 powder	compound
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 calcium	cc
16	calcium	calcium	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vitamin	conj
17	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dust	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 feeding	mark
19	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dust	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 feeding	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 frogs	case
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 feeding	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lizards	cc
24	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 frogs	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
27	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 have	nsubj
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 insects	advmod
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 have	advmod
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dust	advcl
32	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 have	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 what	case
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 enough	nmod
35	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 animals	det
36	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 need	nsubj
37	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	breed	present	Many zoos	rats's own crickets and mealworms			tree rules
2	dust	present	Many zoos not said here	rats = rat		with vitamin powder	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with powder=Theme
3	feed	gerund	Many zoos not said here	rats = rat	frogs and lizards		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to frog=Recipient
4	not have	present · do-support	insects	enough			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
5	need	present	that animals				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:9.

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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