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title: A keeper never goes into the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers · tree and pragmatics
description: A keeper never goes into the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger while it is there; the animal is first moved through slide doors, with two-step locks, checks, radios and keepers often working in pairs. Who acts: keeper, animal, keepers. 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 7

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A keeper never goes into the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger while it is there; the animal is first moved through slide doors, with two-step locks, checks, radios and keepers often working in pairs.

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**Who acts:** keeper, animal, keepers · **What happens:** not go, be, move, work · **To what, where:** den, animal, slide doors

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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 (keeper, animal, keepers), 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:7
# text = A keeper never goes into the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger while it is there; the animal is first moved through slide doors, with two-step locks, checks, radios and keepers often working in pairs.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	_
24	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	radios	radio	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
40	often	often	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **go** | present | a keeper |  |  | the den of a dangerous animal like a tiger |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into den=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | animal |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | present · passive |  | the animal |  | slide doors and step locks and checks and radios and keepers |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme through door=Trajectory |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | keepers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in pairs; often *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pair=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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**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:7`.

**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, 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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