--- title: Many zoos give big cats one or two fast days a week, because wild ca… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics description: Many zoos give big cats one or two fast days a week, because wild cats do not eat every day and fast days stop zoo cats getting fat. Who acts: Many zoos, wild cats, fast days, zoo cats. 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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 (Many zoos, wild cats, fast days, zoo cats), 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:6 # text = Many zoos give big cats one or two fast days a week, because wild cats do not eat every day and fast days stop zoo cats getting fat. # 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 ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 9 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . 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 | **give** | present | Many zoos | | big cats | | day; week | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 2 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | wild cats | | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | fast days | zoo cats | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cat=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | gerund | zoo cats *not said here* | | | | | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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 ×2. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/5/) - next →: [Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/)