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title: Behind every zoo is a busy kitchen where keepers prepare hundreds of… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind every zoo is a busy kitchen where keepers prepare hundreds of meals a day, and each one is planned for one kind of animal, or even one single animal, by a zoo nutritionist who works rather like a doctor. Who acts: keepers, zoo nutritionist. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo 
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 0

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Behind every zoo is a busy kitchen where keepers prepare hundreds of meals a day, and each one is planned for one kind of animal, or even one single animal, by a zoo nutritionist who works rather like a doctor.

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**Who acts:** keepers, zoo nutritionist · **What happens:** be, prepare, plan, work · **To what, where:** busy kitchen, zoo, hundreds, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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, zoo nutritionist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.lesson:0
# text = Behind every zoo is a busy kitchen where keepers prepare hundreds of meals a day, and each one is planned for one kind of animal, or even one single animal, by a zoo nutritionist who works rather like a doctor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.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
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	nutritionist	nutritionist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present |  | a busy kitchen |  | every zoo |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | present | keepers | hundreds of meals |  |  | day |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |
| 3 | **plan** | present · passive |  | each one |  |  |  | for one kind of animal or one single animal | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **work** | present | a zoo nutritionist |  |  |  |  | like a doctor | vn employment-95.3 «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:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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