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title: Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are good for their teeth, and vultures are fed whole dead animals too. Who acts: fur. A sentence of the lesson «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, sentence 7

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Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are good for their teeth, and vultures are fed whole dead animals too.

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**Who acts:** fur · **What happens:** feed, be · **To what, where:** Big cats, vultures

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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 (fur), 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:7
# text = Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are good for their teeth, and vultures are fed whole dead animals too.
# 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): no change
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present · passive |  | Big cats |  |  |  | often *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient carcass=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | fur |  |  |  |  | for cats's teeth; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | present · passive |  | vultures |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient animal=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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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