--- title: Meerkats dig all day in the wild, so a box of sand with hidden mealw… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics description: Meerkats dig all day in the wild, so a box of sand with hidden mealworms lets them do what they feel driven to do. Who acts: Meerkats, box. 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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 (Meerkats, box), 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:13 # text = Meerkats dig all day in the wild, so a box of sand with hidden mealworms lets them do what they feel driven to do. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 mealworms mealworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 17 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 obj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | present | Meerkats | | | the wild | day | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wild=Location | | 2 | **let** | present | a box of sand with hidden mealworms | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | meerkats *= meerkat* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | meerkats *= meerkat* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **drive** | participle | meerkats *= meerkat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | meerkats *= meerkat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [Training and enrichment: keeping zoo a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/12/) - next →: [Training and enrichment: keeping zoo a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/)