--- title: Many zoos breed their own crickets and mealworms, and dust them with… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics description: Many zoos breed their own crickets and mealworms, and dust them with vitamin and calcium powder before feeding them to frogs and lizards, because insects alone do not have enough of what those animals need. Who acts: Many zoos, insects, animals. 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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, insects, animals), 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:9 # text = Many zoos breed their own crickets and mealworms, and dust them with vitamin and calcium powder before feeding them to frogs and lizards, because insects alone do not have enough of what those animals need. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 breed breed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 crickets cricket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 mealworms mealworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 dust dust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 calcium calcium NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 alone alone ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 32 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nmod _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | present | Many zoos | rats's own crickets and mealworms | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dust** | present | Many zoos *not said here* | rats *= rat* | | | | with vitamin powder | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with powder=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | Many zoos *not said here* | rats *= rat* | frogs and lizards | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to frog=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | insects | enough | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | that animals | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. 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