Foxes and squirrels, sentence 8
Foxes belong to the dog family, but they hunt alone and climb like cats, and fox cubs are born blind in an underground den.
Who acts: Foxes · What happens: belong, hunt, climb, bear · To what, where: fox cubs, underground den
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), 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 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 family | compound |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunt | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 belong | conj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 hunt | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 climb | cc |
| 13 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 cats | case |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climb | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 born | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 born | cc |
| 18 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cubs | compound |
| 19 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 born | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 born | aux:pass |
| 21 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 belong | conj |
| 22 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 born | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 den | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 den | det |
| 25 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 den | amod |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 born | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | Foxes | to the dog family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | Foxes = fox | alone property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | climb | present | Foxes = fox not said here | like cats | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | present · passive | fox cubs | a underground den | blind property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:8.
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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