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title: A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, diggi… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing. Who acts: wild animal. A sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 0

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A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.

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**Who acts:** wild animal · **What happens:** spend, search, dig, climb, sniff, chase · **To what, where:** most

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» 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 (wild animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:0
# text = A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 112-training-and-enrichment.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
21	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | a wild animal | most of animal's day |  |  |  | busy *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset |
| 2 | **search** | gerund | a wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for food | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme |
| 3 | **dig** | gerund | a wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **climb** | gerund | a wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sniff** | gerund | a wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **chase** | gerund | a wild animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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