Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 15

Each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from different directions, and the ears also help release heat on hot days.

Who acts: long ear, ears · What happens: turn, catch, help, release · To what, where: own, sounds, different directions, heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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 (long ear, ears), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ear	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ear	amod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	advcl
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 catch	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 directions	case
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 directions	amod
14	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sounds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 help	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ears	det
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 help	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 help	advmod
20	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	conj
21	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 help	xcomp
22	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 release	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 release	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	can	each long ear		friend's own		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory
2	catch	to-infinitive	each long ear not said here	sounds	different directions		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sound=Theme from direction=Source
3	help	present	the ears				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	release	infinitive	the ears not said here	heat		day	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer heat=Source

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:200-rabbits-hay-not-carrots-binkies-and-teeth-that-never-stop-growing.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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