Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 8
Marmots are big ground squirrels of mountain meadows that whistle when they see an eagle or a fox, so everyone dives into the burrows; Alpine marmots hibernate about six months a year.
Who acts: Marmots, big ground squirrels, everyone, Alpine marmots · What happens: be, whistle, see, dive, hibernate · To what, where: big ground squirrels, eagle, burrows
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (Marmots, big ground squirrels, everyone, Alpine marmots), 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 | Marmots | marmot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 squirrels | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squirrels | cop |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 squirrels | amod |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squirrels | compound |
| 5 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meadows | compound |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 squirrels | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 whistle | nsubj |
| 10 | whistle | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squirrels | acl:relcl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 whistle | advcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 fox | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fox | det |
| 18 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eagle | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dives | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 dives | advmod |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 dives | nsubj |
| 22 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squirrels | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 burrows | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 burrows | det |
| 25 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dives | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 squirrels | punct |
| 27 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 marmots | amod |
| 28 | marmots | marmot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hibernate | nsubj |
| 29 | hibernate | hibernate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squirrels | parataxis |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 six | advmod |
| 31 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 months | nummod |
| 32 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hibernate | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 year | det |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 months | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 squirrels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Marmots | big ground squirrels | of mountain meadows | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whistle | present | big ground squirrels | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | present | marmots = marmot | a eagle or a fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dive | present | everyone | the burrows | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Location | ||||
| 5 | hibernate | present | Alpine marmots | month | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:8.
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 ×2. 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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