Foxes and squirrels, sentence 7
In many stories foxes are sly tricksters, because real foxes are clever and adaptable, eat almost anything and learn quickly.
Who acts: foxes, real foxes · What happens: be, eat, learn · To what, where: sly tricksters, many stories, anything
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, real foxes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tricksters | obl |
| 4 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tricksters | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tricksters | cop |
| 6 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tricksters | amod |
| 7 | tricksters | trickster | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clever | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 clever | mark |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foxes | amod |
| 11 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clever | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clever | cop |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tricksters | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 adaptable | cc |
| 15 | adaptable | adaptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clever | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 clever | conj |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 anything | advmod |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 eat | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 learn | cc |
| 21 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | conj |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 learn | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tricksters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | foxes | sly tricksters | many stories | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | real foxes | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | real foxes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | real foxes not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 5 | learn | infinitive | real foxes not said here | quickly property | vn learn-14-1 «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:7.
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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