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title: A keeper's day starts before the zoo opens with checking and countin… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: A keeper's day starts before the zoo opens with checking and counting every animal, then cleaning, feeding and writing notes, and keepers work in shifts because animals need care every day, weekends and Christmas too. Who acts: day, zoo, keepers, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes:
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 4

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A keeper's day starts before the zoo opens with checking and counting every animal, then cleaning, feeding and writing notes, and keepers work in shifts because animals need care every day, weekends and Christmas too.

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**Who acts:** day, zoo, keepers, animals · **What happens:** start, open, check, count, clean, feed · **To what, where:** animal, notes, care

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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 (day, zoo, keepers, 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:4
# text = A keeper's day starts before the zoo opens with checking and counting every animal, then cleaning, feeding and writing notes, and keepers work in shifts because animals need care every day, weekends and Christmas too.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
33	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **start** | present | a keeper's day |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **open** | present | the zoo |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | gerund |  | every animal |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **clean** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **feed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **write** | gerund |  | notes |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 8 | **work** | present | keepers |  |  |  |  | in shifts | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shift=Theme |
| 9 | **need** | present | animals | care |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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