Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 4
It is not for tricks: an elephant that lifts its ear on cue lets the vet take blood without a fight, and an animal that touches a ball on a stick can be guided onto the scales.
Who acts: animal, elephant, vet · What happens: not be, lift, let, take, touch, guide · To what, where: ear, cue, blood, ball, stick, animal
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 (animal, elephant, vet), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tricks | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricks | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tricks | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 tricks | case |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifts | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 elephant | det |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lets | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lifts | nsubj |
| 10 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifts | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cue | case |
| 14 | cue | cue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifts | obl |
| 15 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricks | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vet | det |
| 17 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | nsubj |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lets | xcomp |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 fight | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fight | det |
| 22 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 guided | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 guided | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 animal | det |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 guided | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 touches | nsubj |
| 28 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 animal | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ball | det |
| 30 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 touches | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 stick | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stick | det |
| 33 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 touches | obl |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 guided | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 guided | aux:pass |
| 36 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lets | conj |
| 37 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 39 scales | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 scales | det |
| 39 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 guided | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tricks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | animal | for tricks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lift | present | a elephant | animal's ear | cue | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme on cue=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | present | a elephant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | the vet | blood | without a fight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||
| 5 | touch | present | a animal | a ball | a stick | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||
| 6 | guide | can · passive | a animal | the scales | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto scale=Destination |
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:4.
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. 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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