The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth, sentence 16

Many zoos have stopped elephant shows such as painting, because training for tricks was sometimes harsh, and now train elephants only for health care, using rewards.

Who acts: Many zoos, training · What happens: stop, be, train, use · To what, where: elephant shows, elephants, rewards

This is a sentence of the lesson «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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 (Many zoos, training), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 zoos	amod
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	compound
6	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	obj
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 painting	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 harsh	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 harsh	mark
12	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harsh	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 tricks	case
14	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 training	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 harsh	cop
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 harsh	advmod
17	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stopped	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 train	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 train	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 train	advmod
21	train	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
22	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 train	obj
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 care	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 care	case
25	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 care	compound
26	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 train	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 using	punct
28	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 train	advcl
29	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 using	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect	Many zoos	elephant shows		such painting	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality show=Eventuality
2	is	past	training for tricks			harsh, sometimes property	tree rules
3	train	present	Many zoos not said here	elephants	now	for health care	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme
4	use	gerund	Many zoos not said here	rewards			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient

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:083-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

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