Foxes and squirrels, sentence 4

Foxes scream at night, mostly in winter, to attract mates and mark territory, and people sometimes mistake the sound for a person screaming.

Who acts: Foxes, people, person · What happens: scream, attract, mark, mistake · To what, where: mates, territory, sound

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 (Foxes, people, person), 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	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scream	nsubj
2	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scream	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 winter	punct
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 winter	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scream	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attract	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 attract	mark
11	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 scream	advcl
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attract	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mark	cc
14	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 attract	conj
15	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mark	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mistake	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mistake	cc
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mistake	nsubj
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 mistake	advmod
20	mistake	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scream	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mistake	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 person	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 person	det
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mistake	obl
26	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 person	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scream	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	Foxes		night; winter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attract	to-infinitive	Foxes not said here	mates			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient
3	mark	infinitive	Foxes not said here	territory			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination
4	mistake	present	people	the sound		for a person; sometimes property	tree rules
5	scream speech: express	gerund	a person not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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