Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 2

Every animal has its own trick for the cold months: the squirrel buries acorns, the hedgehog sleeps through winter in a nest of leaves, the owl keeps hunting in the dark.

Who acts: animal, squirrel, hedgehog, owl · What happens: have, bury, sleep, keep, hunt, trick · To what, where: own trick, acorns, nest, dark

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (animal, squirrel, hedgehog, owl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trick	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 months	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 months	amod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trick	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 buries	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 squirrel	det
13	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buries	nsubj
14	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
15	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buries	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleeps	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hedgehog	det
18	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleeps	nsubj
19	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 buries	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 winter	case
21	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleeps	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 nest	det
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleeps	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 leaves	case
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 nest	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keeps	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 owl	det
29	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keeps	nsubj
30	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
31	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 keeps	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 dark	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dark	det
34	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hunting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	every animal	animal's own trick		for the cold months	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient
2	bury	present	the squirrel	acorns			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme
3	sleep	present	the hedgehog		a nest of leaves	winter	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
4	keep	present	the owl				tree rules
5	hunt	gerund	the owl not said here		the dark		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location
6	trick		animal			for the cold months	nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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, 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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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