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title: Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, be… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants. Who acts: Anteaters, made mushy mix, zoo. 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 prag
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 12

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Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants.

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**Who acts:** Anteaters, made mushy mix, zoo · **What happens:** get, make, copy, not collect · **To what, where:** made mushy mix, ant diet, enough wild ants

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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 (Anteaters, made mushy mix, zoo), 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:12
# text = Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants.
# 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	Anteaters	anteater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	mushy	mushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | present | Anteaters | a made mushy mix |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mix=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | specially *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **copy** | present | a made mushy mix | a ant diet |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diet=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **collect** | can | a zoo | enough wild ants |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=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:12`.

**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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