Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 16

African giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out landmines; they are light enough not to set them off and their noses are excellent.

Who acts: African giant pouched rats, rats, noses · What happens: pouch, train, sniff out, be, not set off · To what, where: African giant pouched rats, landmines, rats

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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 (African giant pouched rats, rats, noses), 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	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rats	amod
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rats	amod
3	pouched	pouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rats	amod
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trained	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trained	aux:pass
6	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sniff	mark
8	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trained	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 sniff	compound:prt
10	landmines	landmine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sniff	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 light	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 light	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 light	cop
14	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trained	parataxis
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 light	advmod
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 set	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 set	mark
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 light	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 excellent	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 noses	nmod:poss
23	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 excellent	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 excellent	cop
25	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pouch	participle				tree rules
2	train	present · passive		African giant pouched rats		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	sniff out	to-infinitive	African giant pouched rats not said here	landmines		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmine=Theme
4	is	present	rats = rat		enough, light property	tree rules
5	not set off	to-infinitive	rats = rat not said here	rats = rat		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient
6	is	present	rats's noses		excellent property	tree rules

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:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth.lesson:16.

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): R6-punct-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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