How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 19

Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not fully sure why, and wolves eat some plants too.

Who acts: Many dogs, grass, scientists, wolves · What happens: nibble, be, not be, eat · To what, where: grass, plants

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (Many dogs, grass, scientists, wolves), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nibble	nsubj
3	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 normal	conj
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nibble	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 normal	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 normal	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 normal	cop
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 normal	advmod
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sure	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sure	advmod
14	fully	fully	ADV	_	15 sure	advmod
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 normal	parataxis
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 eat	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
19	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	ccomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 plants	det
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	20 eat	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nibble	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	nibble	present	Many dogs	grass		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	is	present	grass		normal, usually property	tree rules
3	not is	present	scientists		fully, sure property	tree rules
4	eat	present	wolves	some plants		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:19.

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): R6-punct-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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