Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, sentence 9

The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering.

Who acts: scream, fox, foxes · What happens: heard, be, call, find, mark, bark · To what, where: scream, fox, mate, patch, yelp · 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 (scream, fox, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scream	det
2	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fox	nsubj
3	heard	heard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scream	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 nights	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nights	compound
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fox	cop
8	often	often	ADV	_	10 fox	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fox	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 calling	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mate	det
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 mark	cc
17	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 find	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 patch	nmod:poss
19	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mark	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bark	punct
21	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bark	nsubj
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 bark	advmod
23	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fox	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 yelp	punct
25	yelp	yelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bark	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 chatter	cc
27	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yelp	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 called	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 called	aux:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 yelp	acl:relcl
32	gekkering	gekker	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 called	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fox	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	heard	participle		the scream not said here	night		tree rules
2	is a	present	the scream	a fox		often property	tree rules
3	call	gerund	a fox not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	to-infinitive	a fox not said here	a mate			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
5	mark	infinitive	a fox not said here	fox's patch			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent patch=Destination
6	bark	present	foxes				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	present · passive		yelp and chatter			tree rules
8	gekker	gerund					tree rules

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:9.

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 ×3. 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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