Foxes and squirrels, sentence 3
The ones it forgets grow into new trees, so a squirrel is really a forgetful gardener planting forests, and if another squirrel is watching, it may even pretend to bury a nut to fool the thief.
Who acts: squirrel, ones, forgetful gardener · What happens: forget, grow, be, planting, watch, pretend · To what, where: ones, new trees, forgetful gardener, forests, nut, thief
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, ones, forgetful gardener), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ones | det |
| 2 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgets | nsubj |
| 4 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ones | acl:relcl |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 gardener | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 squirrel | det |
| 12 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gardener | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gardener | cop |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 gardener | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gardener | det |
| 16 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gardener | amod |
| 17 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | parataxis |
| 18 | planting | planting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gardener | acl |
| 19 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 planting | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pretend | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pretend | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 watching | mark |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 squirrel | det |
| 24 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watching | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 watching | aux |
| 26 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 pretend | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 watching | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 pretend | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 pretend | aux |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 pretend | advmod |
| 31 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grow | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bury | mark |
| 33 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 pretend | xcomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 nut | det |
| 35 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bury | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fool | mark |
| 37 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bury | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 thief | det |
| 39 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fool | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | squirrel | the ones not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the ones | into new trees result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a squirrel | a forgetful gardener | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | planting | gerund | a forgetful gardener not said here | forests | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | another squirrel | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | pretend | may | squirrel | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bury | to-infinitive | squirrel not said here | a nut | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 8 | fool | to-infinitive | squirrel not said here | the thief | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient |
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:3.
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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