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title: Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which i… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer. Who acts: Scattering, gorillas. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 11

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Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer.

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**Who acts:** Scattering, gorillas · **What happens:** scatter, make, walk, search, call, forage · **To what, where:** food, grass, gorillas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Scattering, gorillas), 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:11
# text = Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer.
# 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	Scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	foraging	forage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **scatter** | gerund |  | food |  | the grass |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in grass=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present | Scattering | gorillas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | gorillas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | infinitive | gorillas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **keep** | present | Scattering *not said here* | gorillas *= gorilla* |  |  |  | busy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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: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): 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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