--- title: Food is cut to suit each mouth: tiny pieces for small beaks and big… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics description: Food is cut to suit each mouth: tiny pieces for small beaks and big pieces for apes, so they hold, bite and work as in the wild. Who acts: apes. 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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 (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:5 # text = Food is cut to suit each mouth: tiny pieces for small beaks and big pieces for apes, so they hold, bite and work as in the wild. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 suit suit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present · passive | | Food | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **suit** | to-infinitive | | each mouth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hold** | present | apes *= ape* | | | | | as the wild | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bite** | present | apes *= ape* *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **work** | present | apes *= ape* *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/)