Foxes and squirrels, sentence 6

Urban foxes live in towns because there is food, shelter and few enemies, but they are wild animals and should not be fed by hand or petted.

Who acts: Urban foxes, food, Foxes, hand · What happens: live, be, not feed, pet · To what, where: towns, wild animals

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 (Urban foxes, food, Foxes, hand), 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	Urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 foxes	amod
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 towns	case
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 is	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	advcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shelter	punct
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 enemies	cc
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 enemies	amod
14	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 animals	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 animals	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 animals	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 animals	cop
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animals	amod
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fed	cc
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fed	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fed	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 fed	aux:pass
25	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 animals	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 hand	case
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fed	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 petted	cc
29	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fed	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present	Urban foxes		towns	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	does	present	food and shelter and few enemies		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	Foxes = fox	wild animals		tree rules
4	not feed	should · passive	hand			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	pet	participle	hand not said here			vn marry-36.2 «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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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