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title: Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos give it only as a treat; some British zoos stopped giving monkeys bananas and gave leafy vegetables instead. Who acts: many zoos, British zoos. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology course of Mo
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 13

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Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos give it only as a treat; some British zoos stopped giving monkeys bananas and gave leafy vegetables instead.

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**Who acts:** many zoos, British zoos · **What happens:** breed, be, give, stop · **To what, where:** Farm fruit, fruit, bananas, monkeys, leafy vegetables

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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 (many zoos, British zoos), 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:13
# text = Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos give it only as a treat; some British zoos stopped giving monkeys bananas and gave leafy vegetables instead.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	xcomp	_	_
28	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound
29	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **breed** | present · passive |  | Farm fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than wild fruit; sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | many zoos | fruit |  |  |  | as a treat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | past | some British zoos |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | some British zoos *not said here* | bananas | monkeys |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient banana=Theme |
| 6 | **give** | past | some British zoos *not said here* | leafy vegetables |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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