Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 13

Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night.

Who acts: Coyotes · What happens: live, eat, move about · To what, where: many North American cities, rats

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (Coyotes), 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	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 cities	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cities	amod
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cities	compound
7	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cities	amod
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Chicago	punct
10	including	include	ADP	_	11 Chicago	case
11	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cities	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Los	cc
13	Los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Chicago	conj
14	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Los	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 live	advcl
17	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eating	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mice	punct
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rats	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fruit	punct
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rats	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rubbish	cc
23	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fruit	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 moving	cc
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 eating	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 moving	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Coyotes		many North American cities include Chicago and Los	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location
2	eat	gerund	Coyotes not said here	rats and mice and fruit and rubbish				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
3	move about	gerund	Coyotes not said here			night	about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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, 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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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