Foxes and squirrels, sentence 14
Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun.
Who acts: Squirrels, skilled acrobats, people · What happens: be, solve, reach, build · To what, where: skilled acrobats, puzzles, bird feeders, obstacle courses
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 (Squirrels, skilled acrobats, people), 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 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 acrobats | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acrobats | cop |
| 3 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 acrobats | amod |
| 4 | acrobats | acrobat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 build | conj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 solve | nsubj |
| 6 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acrobats | acl:relcl |
| 7 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 solve | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 puzzles | acl |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeders | compound |
| 11 | feeders | feeder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 build | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 build | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 build | nsubj |
| 16 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obstacle | compound |
| 18 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 courses | compound |
| 19 | courses | course | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 build | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 fun | case |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 build | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acrobats | 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 | is a | present | Squirrels | skilled acrobats | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | solve | present | skilled acrobats | puzzles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | skilled acrobats not said here | bird feeders | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent feeder=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | present | some people | obstacle courses | for fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent course=Product for fun=Asset |
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:14.
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): 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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