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title: Many animals have quiet off-show areas where they can rest and hide;… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animals have quiet off-show areas where they can rest and hide; good zoos let animals choose whether to be seen, which is why you sometimes see an empty enclosure. Who acts: Many animals, keepers, good zoos, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» of the bi
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 11

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Many animals have quiet off-show areas where they can rest and hide; good zoos let animals choose whether to be seen, which is why you sometimes see an empty enclosure.

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**Who acts:** Many animals, keepers, good zoos, animals, you · **What happens:** have, rest, hide, let, choose, see · **To what, where:** quiet show areas, empty enclosure

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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 (Many animals, keepers, good zoos, 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:11
# text = Many animals have quiet off-show areas where they can rest and hide; good zoos let animals choose whether to be seen, which is why you sometimes see an empty enclosure.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Many animals | quiet show areas |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient |
| 2 | **rest** | can | keepers *= keeper* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | infinitive | keepers *= keeper* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | present | good zoos |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **choose** | infinitive | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive | you | a empty enclosure |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enclosure=Stimulus |

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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): 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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