Foxes and squirrels, sentence 11
A squirrel's bushy tail helps it balance and works as a blanket and an umbrella.
Who acts: bushy tail, squirrel · What happens: help, balance, work
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 (bushy tail, squirrel), 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 | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 squirrel | case |
| 4 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tail | amod |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 balance | nsubj |
| 8 | balance | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 works | cc |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 helps | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 blanket | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blanket | det |
| 13 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 umbrella | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 umbrella | det |
| 16 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blanket | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a squirrel's bushy tail | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | balance | infinitive | squirrel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work | present | a squirrel's bushy tail not said here | as a blanket and a umbrella | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as blanket=Attribute |
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:11.
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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