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title: Long before the gates open, at about 7 in the morning, the keepers w… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: Long before the gates open, at about 7 in the morning, the keepers walk round the zoo and the first job is simple: look at every animal and count them, to be sure all are there and all are well. Who acts: gates, keepers, first job, all. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the kee
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 0

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Long before the gates open, at about 7 in the morning, the keepers walk round the zoo and the first job is simple: look at every animal and count them, to be sure all are there and all are well.

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**Who acts:** gates, keepers, first job, all · **What happens:** open, walk, be, look, count · **To what, where:** 7, keepers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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 (gates, keepers, first job, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers.lesson:0
# text = Long before the gates open, at about 7 in the morning, the keepers walk round the zoo and the first job is simple: look at every animal and count them, to be sure all are there and all are well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:det
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	ccomp	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | the gates |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | the keepers |  |  | 7 in the morning |  | round the zoo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 7=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | the first job |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at every animal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at animal=Theme |
| 5 | **count** | infinitive |  | keepers *= keeper* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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, R7-rel-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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