Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 7

Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and animals take part more often when they know they can walk away.

Who acts: Modern zoos, animals, rewards · What happens: let, choose, take, know, walk away · To what, where: part, training · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Modern zoos, animals, rewards), 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	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 choose	nsubj
5	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	xcomp
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 take	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 choose	ccomp
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 training	case
11	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 know	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 take	advcl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 walk	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 walk	aux
24	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 walk	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	present	Modern zoos				tree rules
2	choose	infinitive	animals				tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	animals not said here	part	training		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in training=Location
4	take	present	animals	part		often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
5	know	present	rewards = reward				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	walk away	can	rewards = reward			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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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