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title: Feeding times are when many animals are most lively, so zoos hold pu… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeding times are when many animals are most lively, so zoos hold public feeding talks, and some change the times daily so animals do not just wait at the gate. Who acts: Feeding times, zoos, some, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 10

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Feeding times are when many animals are most lively, so zoos hold public feeding talks, and some change the times daily so animals do not just wait at the gate.

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**Who acts:** Feeding times, zoos, some, animals · **What happens:** be, hold, change, not wait · **To what, where:** public feeding talks, gate

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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 (Feeding times, zoos, some, animals), 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:10
# text = Feeding times are when many animals are most lively, so zoos hold public feeding talks, and some change the times daily so animals do not just wait at the gate.
# 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): no change
1	Feeding	feed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | Feeding times |  |  |  |  | lively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | zoos | public feeding talks |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | present | some |  |  |  | time | daily *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **wait** | present · do-support | animals |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |

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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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**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): no change. **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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