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title: The food is chosen to match how each animal eats in the wild: whole… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: The food is chosen to match how each animal eats in the wild: whole carcasses for big cats and vultures, frozen and thawed mice for snakes, live crickets for frogs and lizards, leafy greens for monkeys and a mushy ant-like mix for the anteater. Who acts: animal. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding tim
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 1

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The food is chosen to match how each animal eats in the wild: whole carcasses for big cats and vultures, frozen and thawed mice for snakes, live crickets for frogs and lizards, leafy greens for monkeys and a mushy ant-like mix for the anteater.

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**Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** choose, match, eat, freeze, thaw · **To what, where:** food, wild

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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 (animal), 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:1
# text = The food is chosen to match how each animal eats in the wild: whole carcasses for big cats and vultures, frozen and thawed mice for snakes, live crickets for frogs and lizards, leafy greens for monkeys and a mushy ant-like mix for the anteater.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
23	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	thawed	thaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	crickets	cricket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
43	mushy	mushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
44	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	_
46	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	anteater	anteater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	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 | **choose** | present · passive |  | the food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **match** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | each animal |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **thaw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:1`.

**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, R6-punct-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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