--- title: In Madagascar the zoo animals slip out at night and ride the subway… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics description: In Madagascar the zoo animals slip out at night and ride the subway to the city; real escapes are rare, and zoos practise for them like a school fire drill, with teams, radios and nets. Who acts: zoo animals, real escapes, zoos. 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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 (zoo animals, real escapes, zoos), 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:3 # text = In Madagascar the zoo animals slip out at night and ride the subway to the city; real escapes are rare, and zoos practise for them like a school fire drill, with teams, radios and nets. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out PART RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 subway subway NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 escapes escape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 practise practise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 drill drill NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 radios radio NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:appos 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip out** | present | the zoo animals | | | | night | in Madagascar | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in madagascar=Attribute | | 2 | **ride** | present | the zoo animals *not said here* | the subway | | the city | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subway=Theme to city=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | real escapes | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **practise** | present | zoos | | | | | for escapes *= escape*; like a school fire drill with teams and radios and nets | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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. 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