Foxes and squirrels, sentence 0
Two wild animals live right next to us in parks and gardens, and both are cleverer than they look.
Who acts: Two wild animals, both, animals · What happens: live, be, look · To what, where: us, parks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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 (Two wild animals, both, animals), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 animals | nummod |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 next | advmod |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 parks | case |
| 10 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gardens | cc |
| 12 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 parks | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cleverer | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cleverer | cc |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 cleverer | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cleverer | cop |
| 17 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 live | conj |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | nsubj |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cleverer | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | 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 | live | present | Two wild animals | us | parks and gardens | next property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | both | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | animals = animal | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:0.
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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