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title: Zoos practise escape drills with teams, radios and nets, a bit like… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoos practise escape drills with teams, radios and nets, a bit like fire drills at school; real escapes are rare, and a famous escaper was Ken Allen, an orangutan at San Diego Zoo in the 1980s. Who acts: Zoos, real escapes, famous escaper. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the 
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 13

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Zoos practise escape drills with teams, radios and nets, a bit like fire drills at school; real escapes are rare, and a famous escaper was Ken Allen, an orangutan at San Diego Zoo in the 1980s.

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**Who acts:** Zoos, real escapes, famous escaper · **What happens:** practise, be · **To what, where:** escape drills, Ken, 1980s

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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 (Zoos, real escapes, famous escaper), 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:13
# text = Zoos practise escape drills with teams, radios and nets, a bit like fire drills at school; real escapes are rare, and a famous escaper was Ken Allen, an orangutan at San Diego Zoo in the 1980s.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	practise	practise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drills	drill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	radios	radio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	drills	drill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	escapes	escape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	escaper	escaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Ken	Ken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	Diego	Diego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	1980s	1980s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present | Zoos | escape drills |  |  |  | with teams and radios and nets | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | real escapes |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a famous escaper | Ken |  | the 1980s |  |  | 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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**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:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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