Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 11

Some zoos try music, sounds or screens for apes and parrots, and orangutans in some zoos have used tablets to watch videos and play games.

Who acts: zoos, orangutans · What happens: try, use, watch, play · To what, where: music, tablets, videos, games

This is a sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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 (zoos, orangutans), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 zoos	det
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 try	nsubj
3	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 try	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	punct
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 music	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 screens	cc
8	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounds	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 apes	case
10	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounds	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parrots	cc
12	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 apes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 used	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 used	cc
15	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 used	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 zoos	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 zoos	det
18	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 orangutans	nmod
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 used	aux
20	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 try	conj
21	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 used	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 watch	mark
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 used	advcl
24	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watch	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 play	cc
26	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 watch	conj
27	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 play	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	present	some zoos	music and sounds for apes and parrots or screens	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Eventuality
2	use	present · perfect	orangutans in some zoos	tablets	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient
3	watch	to-infinitive	orangutans in some zoos not said here	videos	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme
4	play	infinitive	orangutans in some zoos not said here	games	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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