Foxes and squirrels, sentence 2
A squirrel is a rodent with teeth that never stop growing, and in autumn it buries thousands of nuts one by one, finding many again by memory and smell.
Who acts: squirrel, teeth · What happens: be, not stop, grow, bury, find · To what, where: rodent, thousands, many
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, teeth), 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 rodent | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rodent | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rodent | det |
| 5 | rodent | rodent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rodent | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 stop | advmod |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 11 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stop | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buries | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buries | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 autumn | case |
| 15 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buries | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 buries | nsubj |
| 17 | buries | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rodent | conj |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buries | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nuts | case |
| 20 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 buries | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 one | fixed |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 one | fixed |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 finding | punct |
| 25 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 buries | advcl |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 finding | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 finding | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 memory | case |
| 29 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finding | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smell | cc |
| 31 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 memory | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rodent | 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 | a squirrel | a rodent | with teeth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not stop | present | teeth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | teeth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury | present | squirrel | thousands of nuts | autumn | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | gerund | squirrel not said here | many | again | by memory and smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
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:2.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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