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title: Some zoos have night staff to check animals that are ill or about to… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: Some zoos have night staff to check animals that are ill or about to give birth, because births often happen at night, and cameras let keepers watch without disturbing the animals. Who acts: zoos, animals, births, cameras. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» of the b
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 15

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Some zoos have night staff to check animals that are ill or about to give birth, because births often happen at night, and cameras let keepers watch without disturbing the animals.

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**Who acts:** zoos, animals, births, cameras, keepers · **What happens:** have, check, be, give, happen, let · **To what, where:** night staff, animals, birth, 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 (zoos, animals, births, cameras), 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:15
# text = Some zoos have night staff to check animals that are ill or about to give birth, because births often happen at night, and cameras let keepers watch without disturbing the animals.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	births	birth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	xcomp	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	disturbing	disturb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some zoos | night staff |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | some zoos *not said here* | animals |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | animals |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | birth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |
| 6 | **happen** | present | births |  |  |  | night | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **let** | present | cameras | keepers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **watch** | infinitive | keepers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **disturb** | gerund | keepers *not said here* | the animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |

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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:15`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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