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title: Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and animals take part more often when they know they can walk away. Who acts: Modern zoos, animals, rewards. A sentence of the lesson «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy, sentence 7

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Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and animals take part more often when they know they can walk away.

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**Who acts:** Modern zoos, animals, rewards · **What happens:** let, choose, take, know, walk away · **To what, where:** part, training · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Modern zoos, animals, rewards), 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:7
# text = Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and animals take part more often when they know they can walk away.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	xcomp	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Modern zoos |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | infinitive | animals |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | part |  | training |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in training=Location |
| 4 | **take** | present | animals | part |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | rewards *= reward* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **walk away** | can | rewards *= reward* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: 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: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): R5-strong ×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.

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