--- title: Zoos ask visitors not to pick up feathers, for hygiene and because f… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical house · tree and pragmatics description: Zoos ask visitors not to pick up feathers, for hygiene and because feathers of some protected birds may not be kept without a permit; birds replace feathers in a moult. Who acts: Zoos, birds. 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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 (Zoos, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:15 # text = Zoos ask visitors not to pick up feathers, for hygiene and because feathers of some protected birds may not be kept without a permit; birds replace feathers in a moult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 8 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hygiene hygiene NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 14 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 17 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 23 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 permit permit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 replace replace VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 29 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 moult moult NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Zoos | | visitors | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Zoos *not said here* | feathers | | | | for hygiene | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic | | 3 | **protect** | participle | | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **keep** | may · passive | | feathers of some protected birds | | | | without a permit | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **replace** | present | birds | feathers | | a moult | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feather=Co-Theme | 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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:15`. **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, 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. 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