--- title: Snakes and birds of prey are fed mostly frozen, thawed mice, rats an… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes and birds of prey are fed mostly frozen, thawed mice, rats and chicks, which is safer for the snake because a live rat can bite it; keepers often warm the food, because snakes find it by smell and warmth. Who acts: rats, live rat, keepers, snakes. 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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 (rats, live rat, keepers, snakes), 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:8 # text = Snakes and birds of prey are fed mostly frozen, thawed mice, rats and chicks, which is safer for the snake because a live rat can bite it; keepers often warm the food, because snakes find it by smell and warmth. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 thawed thaw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 acl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 often often ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present · passive | | Snakes and birds of prey | | | | frozen thawed mice and rats and chicks *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | mostly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **thaw** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | rats and chicks | | | | | for the snake; safe *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **bite** | can | a live rat | prey | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **warm** | present | keepers | the food | | | | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 7 | **find** | present | snakes | food | | | | by smell and warmth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/7/) - next →: [Feeding times and the zoo kitchen, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/)