Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 7
City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.
Who acts: City foxes, bins · What happens: be, find, need · To what, where: food, gardens, smaller areas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 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 (City foxes, bins), 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 | City | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foxes | compound |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 active | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 active | cop |
| 4 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 active | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 active | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 active | conj |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gardens | case |
| 12 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bins | cc |
| 14 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gardens | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 need | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 active | parataxis |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 areas | amod |
| 20 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 foxes | case |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 foxes | compound |
| 23 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 areas | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 active | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | City foxes | night | active, mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | City foxes not said here | food | gardens and bins | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | |||
| 3 | need | present | bins = bin | smaller areas | than country foxes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot area=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:141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits.lesson:7.
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): 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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