Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing, sentence 9
A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbit that stops eating or pooing for half a day needs a vet urgently.
Who acts: gut, hay, rabbit · What happens: need, move, stop, eat, poo · To what, where: hay, vet
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 (gut, hay, rabbit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gut | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 rabbit | case |
| 4 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needs | obj |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 hay | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moving | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 needs | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 needs | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rabbit | det |
| 16 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 needs | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stops | nsubj |
| 18 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 19 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stops | xcomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 pooing | cc |
| 21 | pooing | poo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 eating | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 23 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 25 day | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pooing | obl |
| 26 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 needs | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 vet | det |
| 28 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 needs | obj |
| 29 | urgently | urgently | ADV | _ | 26 needs | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a rabbit's gut | hay | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | hay not said here | hay | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | stop | present | a rabbit | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | a rabbit not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | poo | gerund | a rabbit not said here | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | need | present | a rabbit | a vet | urgently property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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