Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 9
Gerbils come from deserts where they live in tunnels, so they love a deep layer of bedding to dig in.
Who acts: Gerbils · What happens: come, live, love, dig in · To what, where: deserts, tunnels, deep layer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 (Gerbils), 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 | Gerbils | gerbil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 deserts | case |
| 4 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 live | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserts | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tunnels | case |
| 9 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 love | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 layer | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 layer | amod |
| 16 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bedding | case |
| 18 | bedding | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 layer | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 dig | mark |
| 20 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 layer | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 dig | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | 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 | come | present | Gerbils | deserts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from desert=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Gerbils = gerbil | tunnels | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Location | ||||
| 3 | love | present | Gerbils = gerbil | a deep layer of bedding | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dig in | to-infinitive | Gerbils = gerbil not said here | a deep layer of bedding not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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): no change. 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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