Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 15

Marmots whistle loudly when they see an eagle or a fox, warning the others to run to their burrows, and they sleep through winter for up to eight months.

Who acts: Marmots, others · What happens: whistle, see, warn, run, sleep · To what, where: eagle, others, burrows

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Marmots, others), 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	Marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whistle	nsubj
2	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 whistle	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 see	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whistle	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fox	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eagle	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warning	punct
13	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 whistle	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 warning	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 run	mark
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 warning	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 burrows	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 burrows	nmod:poss
20	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 run	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sleep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sleep	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sleep	nsubj
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whistle	conj
25	through	through	ADP	_	26 winter	case
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sleep	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 months	case
28	up	up	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eight	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 up	fixed
30	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 months	nummod
31	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sleep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whistle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	present	Marmots				loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	Marmots = marmot	a eagle or a fox				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus
3	warn speech: warn	gerund	Marmots not said here	the others				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
4	run	to-infinitive	the others not said here		Marmots's burrows			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to burrow=Destination
5	sleep	present	Marmots = marmot			month; winter		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:15.

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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