Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 6

Zoos have escape plans, trained staff and alarms; most escapes are of small animals and end quickly, and people should stay away and let the keepers handle it.

Who acts: Zoos, most escapes, people, keepers · What happens: have, train, be, end, stay away, let · To what, where: escape plans, staff

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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, most escapes, people, 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	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plans	compound
4	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 staff	punct
6	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 staff	amod
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plans	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 alarms	cc
9	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plans	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 animals	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 escapes	amod
12	escapes	escape	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 animals	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 animals	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 animals	case
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 end	cc
18	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 animals	conj
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 end	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stay	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stay	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	aux
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 animals	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 stay	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stay	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 keepers	det
29	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 handle	nsubj
30	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 handle	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Zoos	escape plans and trained staff and alarms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	train	participle				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	most escapes		of small animals	tree rules
4	end	present	most escapes not said here		quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	stay away	should	people		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	let	infinitive	people not said here			tree rules
7	handle	infinitive	the keepers	staff		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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