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title: Keepers write down what each animal ate, how it acted and anything u… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: Keepers write down what each animal ate, how it acted and anything unusual, because small changes over days show illness early, and many zoos share records on a system called ZIMS. Who acts: Keepers, animal, small changes, many zoos. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: a day with the keeper
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# Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers, sentence 5

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Keepers write down what each animal ate, how it acted and anything unusual, because small changes over days show illness early, and many zoos share records on a system called ZIMS.

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**Who acts:** Keepers, animal, small changes, many zoos · **What happens:** write down, eat, act, show, share, call · **To what, where:** anything, illness, records, system · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Keepers, animal, small changes, many 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:5
# text = Keepers write down what each animal ate, how it acted and anything unusual, because small changes over days show illness early, and many zoos share records on a system called ZIMS.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
14	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
22	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	ZIMS	ZIMS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | present | Keepers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | past | each animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **act** | past | animal | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **show** | present | small changes over days | illness |  |  |  | early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent illness=Recipient |
| 5 | **share** | present | many zoos | records |  | a system |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  | a system *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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