Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 8
A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and dives head first onto them; one unproven idea says foxes use the Earth's magnetism to aim.
Who acts: fox hunting, one unproven idea, foxes · What happens: listen, leap, dive, say, use, aim · To what, where: snow, head, magnetism · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fox hunting, one unproven idea, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunting | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunting | compound |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaps | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 snow | case |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 listens | obl |
| 6 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunting | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 mice | case |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 listens | obl |
| 9 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 11 leaps | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaps | punct |
| 11 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 leaps | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dives | cc |
| 14 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaps | conj |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dives | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 head | advmod |
| 17 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dives | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 idea | nummod |
| 21 | unproven | unproven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 idea | amod |
| 22 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 says | nsubj |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaps | conj |
| 24 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 use | nsubj |
| 25 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Earth | det |
| 27 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 magnetism | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Earth | case |
| 29 | magnetism | magnetism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 use | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 aim | mark |
| 31 | aim | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 use | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | a fox hunting not said here | snow | for mice | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Location for mouse=Theme | |||
| 2 | leap | present | a fox hunting | high, underneath property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dive | present | a fox hunting not said here | head | onto mice = mouse | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto they=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | one unproven idea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | use | present | foxes | the Earth's magnetism | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnetism=Patient | ||||
| 6 | aim | to-infinitive | foxes not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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: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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