The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 15

Zoos ask visitors not to pick up feathers, for hygiene and because feathers of some protected birds may not be kept without a permit; birds replace feathers in a moult.

Who acts: Zoos, birds · What happens: ask, not pick up, protect, not keep, replace · To what, where: visitors, feathers, moult

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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, birds), 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 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	iobj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pick	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pick	mark
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pick	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hygiene	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 hygiene	case
11	hygiene	hygiene	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kept	cc
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 kept	mark
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kept	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 birds	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 birds	det
17	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 birds	amod
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feathers	nmod
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 kept	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 kept	aux:pass
22	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ask	conj
23	without	without	ADP	_	25 permit	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 permit	det
25	permit	permit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 replace	punct
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 replace	nsubj
28	replace	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	parataxis
29	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 replace	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 moult	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moult	det
32	moult	moult	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 replace	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Zoos		visitors			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Zoos not said here	feathers			for hygiene	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
3	protect	participle						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	not keep	may · passive		feathers of some protected birds			without a permit	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	replace	present	birds	feathers		a moult		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feather=Co-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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:15.

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, 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.

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