Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 12
Zoos test whether enrichment works by counting behaviour such as pacing (walking the same path again and again, often a sign of boredom or stress), play and resting before and after; this is part of animal welfare science.
Who acts: Zoos, enrichment, this · What happens: test, work, count, walk, rest, be · To what, where: behaviour, same path, part, boredom
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, enrichment, this), 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 | Zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 test | nsubj |
| 2 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 works | mark |
| 4 | enrichment | enrichment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 test | ccomp |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 counting | mark |
| 7 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 works | advcl |
| 8 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counting | obj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 pacing | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | pacing | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 behaviour | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 pacing | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 path | amod |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 again | cc |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 again | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sign | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 sign | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sign | det |
| 23 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pacing | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 boredom | case |
| 25 | boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sign | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 stress | cc |
| 27 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boredom | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 play | punct |
| 30 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 behaviour | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 resting | cc |
| 32 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 play | conj |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 resting | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 after | cc |
| 35 | after | after | ADV | _ | 33 before | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 test | punct |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 part | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 part | cop |
| 39 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 test | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 science | case |
| 41 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 welfare | compound |
| 42 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 science | compound |
| 43 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 part | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 test | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | present | Zoos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | present | enrichment | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | count | gerund | enrichment not said here | behaviour and play | such pacing | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behaviour=Theme | |||
| 4 | walk | gerund | the same path | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | rest | gerund | enrichment not said here | before property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | this | part | of welfare science | tree rules | |||
| 7 | sign | boredom or stress | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:12.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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