The city as a habitat, sentence 6
Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms, rats, fruit and scraps, with dens in gardens, parks and railway banks.
Who acts: Red foxes · What happens: live, eat · To what, where: many cities
This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (Red foxes), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 foxes | amod |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cities | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cities | amod |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 London | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cities | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Bristol | cc |
| 11 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 London | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worms | punct |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 worms | amod |
| 14 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 London | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rats | punct |
| 16 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 worms | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fruit | punct |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rats | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 scraps | cc |
| 20 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rats | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dens | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 dens | case |
| 23 | dens | den | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rats | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 gardens | case |
| 25 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dens | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 parks | punct |
| 27 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gardens | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 banks | cc |
| 29 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 banks | compound |
| 30 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rats | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Red foxes | many cities like London and Bristol and eating worms and rats and fruit and scraps and dens in gardens and parks and railway banks | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:6.
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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