Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 11
An Arctic fox mother can have over ten cubs in a good lemming year.
Who acts: fox mother · What happens: have over · To what, where: ten cubs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» 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 mother), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 2 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | compound |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 ten | advmod |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cubs | nummod |
| 9 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 13 | lemming | lemming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 year | compound |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have over | can | a fox mother | ten cubs | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient |
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:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:11.
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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