--- title: Then comes the real work: shovelling dung, scrubbing pools, cutting… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics description: Then comes the real work: shovelling dung, scrubbing pools, cutting food, writing notes, and every day of the year, Christmas included, because animals need care whatever the date. Who acts: Christmas, animals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas, animals), 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:1 # text = Then comes the real work: shovelling dung, scrubbing pools, cutting food, writing notes, and every day of the year, Christmas included, because animals need care whatever the date. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 shovelling shovelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 scrubbing scrub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 26 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 included include VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | | the real work and shovelling dung and scrubbing pools and cutting food and writing notes | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme | | 2 | **scrub** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cut** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **include** | past | Christmas | | | | day | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | present | animals | care | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-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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