Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 15

Some zoos pull a lure along a rope or zip wire so tigers and cheetahs can stalk and sprint, which gives them exercise they are built for.

Who acts: zoos, tigers, exercise · What happens: pull, stalk, sprint, give, build · To what, where: lure, exercise, cheetahs

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, tigers, exercise), 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 pull	nsubj
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lure	det
5	lure	lure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
6	along	along	ADP	_	11 wire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 zip	cc
10	zip	zip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rope	conj
11	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rope	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 stalk	advmod
13	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stalk	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cheetahs	cc
15	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tigers	conj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stalk	aux
17	stalk	stalk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pull	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sprint	cc
19	sprint	sprint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stalk	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gives	nsubj
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sprint	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gives	iobj
24	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 built	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 built	aux:pass
27	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 exercise	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	27 built	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pull	present	some zoos	a lure		a rope or zip and wire obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lure=Theme
2	stalk	can	tigers and cheetahs				vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sprint	infinitive	tigers and cheetahs not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present		exercise	cheetahs = cheetah		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient exercise=Theme
5	build	present · passive	exercise not said here	cheetahs = cheetah			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:15.

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 ×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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