Foxes and squirrels, sentence 10
A squirrel can run down a tree head first because its back ankles turn round so its claws hook into the bark facing up.
Who acts: squirrel, back ankles, claws, bark · What happens: run down, turn round, hook, face up · To what, where: tree head, bark
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 (squirrel, back ankles, claws, bark), 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 squirrel | det |
| 2 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 run | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | compound |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 run | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ankles | compound |
| 13 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | advcl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 hook | advmod |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 claws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hook | nsubj |
| 19 | hook | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turn | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 bark | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bark | det |
| 22 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hook | obl |
| 23 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 bark | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 facing | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | 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 | run down | can | a squirrel | a tree head | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn round | present | squirrel's back ankles | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hook | present | squirrel's claws | the bark | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bark=Destination | ||||
| 4 | face up | gerund | the bark not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:10.
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): 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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