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title: Feeding is also a job for the brain: gorillas find their food scatte… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeding is also a job for the brain: gorillas find their food scattered in the grass, apes get big pieces to hold and bite, and big cats even have days with no food at all, just like their wild cousins. Who acts: Feeding, gorillas, food, apes. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitc
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 2

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Feeding is also a job for the brain: gorillas find their food scattered in the grass, apes get big pieces to hold and bite, and big cats even have days with no food at all, just like their wild cousins.

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**Who acts:** Feeding, gorillas, food, apes, big pieces, big cats · **What happens:** be, find, scatter, get, hold, bite · **To what, where:** job, food, grass, big pieces

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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, gorillas, food, apes), 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:2
# text = Feeding is also a job for the brain: gorillas find their food scattered in the grass, apes get big pieces to hold and bite, and big cats even have days with no food at all, just like their wild cousins.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Feeding | a job |  |  |  | for the brain | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | gorillas | gorillas's food |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent food=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **scatter** | participle | gorillas's food *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in grass=Destination |
| 4 | **get** | present | apes | big pieces |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | big pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bite** | infinitive | big pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **have** | present | big cats |  |  |  | day | with no food at all; like cats's wild cousins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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