--- title: That is why the sign says «please do not throw food to the animals»:… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics description: That is why the sign says «please do not throw food to the animals»: every meal is measured, and a crisp from each of a thousand visitors adds up to a sick, fat animal. Who acts: That, sign, crisp. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, sign, crisp), 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:3 # text = That is why the sign says «please do not throw food to the animals»: every meal is measured, and a crisp from each of a thousand visitors adds up to a sick, fat animal. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×4 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 please please INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 9 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 crisp crisp NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the sign | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **throw** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | food | the animals | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme to animal=Destination | | 4 | **measure** | present · passive | | every meal | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 5 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | a crisp from each | | | | | to a sick fat animal | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to animal=Co-Patient | 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. **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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/2/) - next →: [Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/)