Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 5

In target training an animal learns to touch a target, such as a ball on a stick, to get a reward, so keepers can move it onto scales and into position for health checks without force.

Who acts: animal, keepers · What happens: learn, touch, get, move · To what, where: target training, target, reward, animal, scales

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, keepers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 training	case
2	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 training	compound
3	training	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learns	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learns	nsubj
6	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 touch	mark
8	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learns	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 target	det
10	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ball	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 ball	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ball	det
15	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 target	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 stick	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stick	det
18	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ball	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 touch	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 reward	det
23	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 move	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 move	mark
26	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 move	aux
28	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 get	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 move	obj
30	onto	onto	ADP	_	31 scales	case
31	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 position	cc
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 position	case
34	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 scales	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 checks	case
36	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 checks	compound
37	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 position	nmod
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 force	case
39	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 checks	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 learns	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	present	a animal		target training		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch	to-infinitive	a animal not said here	a target		such a ball on a stick	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme target=Co-Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	a animal not said here	a reward			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
4	move	can	keepers	animal	scales and position for health checks without force		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme onto scale=Trajectory

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:5.

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 ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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