The penguin pool, sentence 8

Keepers hand-feed penguins to know how much fish each eats, tell them apart by coloured flipper bands, and sometimes hide vitamin pills in the fish.

Who acts: Keepers, each · What happens: hand, feed, know, eat, tell, hide · To what, where: penguins, much fish, vitamin pills · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 (Keepers, each), 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	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hand	nsubj
2	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hand	punct
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hand	flat
5	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feed	advcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eats	obj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 eats	nsubj
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feed	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	obj
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	14 tell	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 bands	case
18	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bands	amod
19	flipper	flipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bands	compound
20	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hide	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hide	cc
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 hide	advmod
24	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hand	conj
25	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pills	compound
26	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hide	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 fish	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fish	det
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hand	present	Keepers				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feed	infinitive			penguins		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Recipient
3	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat	present	each	much fish			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			penguins = penguin	by coloured flipper bands; apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	hide	present	Keepers not said here	vitamin pills		in the fish; sometimes property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pill=Patient in fish=Location

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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:8.

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 ×3, 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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