--- title: Zoos have scales of every size, from tiny bird scales to platforms f… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics description: Zoos have scales of every size, from tiny bird scales to platforms for elephants, because weight shows health and is needed to get medicine doses right, and elephants are trained to step on for a treat. Who acts: Zoos, weight, elephants. 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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 (Zoos, weight, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:10 # text = Zoos have scales of every size, from tiny bird scales to platforms for elephants, because weight shows health and is needed to get medicine doses right, and elephants are trained to step on for a treat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.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 Zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 platforms platform NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 20 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 26 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 doses dose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 on on ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Zoos | scales of every size and tiny bird scales to platforms for elephants | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient | | 2 | **show** | present | weight | health | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent health=Recipient | | 3 | **need** | present · passive | weight *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | weight *not said here* | medicine doses | | | | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dose=Stimulus | | 5 | **train** | present · passive | | elephants | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **step on** | to-infinitive | elephants *not said here* | | | | | for a treat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital.lesson:10`. **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. 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