Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 13

Meerkats dig all day in the wild, so a box of sand with hidden mealworms lets them do what they feel driven to do.

Who acts: Meerkats, box · What happens: dig, let, do, feel, drive · To what, where: wild

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 (Meerkats, box), 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	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obl:unmarked
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lets	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	17 lets	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lets	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sand	case
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 mealworms	case
15	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mealworms	amod
16	mealworms	mealworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 box	nmod
17	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dig	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lets	xcomp
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 do	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 feel	nsubj
22	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 do	ccomp
23	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 feel	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 driven	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dig	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	dig	present	Meerkats	the wild	day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wild=Location
2	let	present	a box of sand with hidden mealworms			tree rules
3	do	infinitive	meerkats = meerkat			tree rules
4	feel	present	meerkats = meerkat			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	drive	participle	meerkats = meerkat not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
6	do	to-infinitive	meerkats = meerkat not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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:13.

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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