--- title: Keepers hide medicine in favourite foods, like a pill in a grape, be… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal ho… · tree and pragmatics description: Keepers hide medicine in favourite foods, like a pill in a grape, because animals spit out bitter pills, and some animals get clever at eating around them. Who acts: Keepers, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/) / 11 # Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital, sentence 11 Keepers hide medicine in favourite foods, like a pill in a grape, because animals spit out bitter pills, and some animals get clever at eating around them. **Who acts:** Keepers, animals · **What happens:** hide, spit out, get, eat · **To what, where:** medicine, favourite foods, bitter pills This is a sentence of the lesson «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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, animals), 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:11 # text = Keepers hide medicine in favourite foods, like a pill in a grape, because animals spit out bitter pills, and some animals get clever at eating around them. # 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 Keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pill pill NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 grape grape NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spit spit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 at at SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 around around ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **hide** | present | Keepers | medicine | | favourite foods | | like a pill in a grape | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient in food=Location | | 2 | **spit out** | present | animals | bitter pills | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pill=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | some animals | | | | | clever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | some animals *not said here* | | | | | around keepers *= keeper* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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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