Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 8
Rats are good swimmers and can hold their breath for a few minutes, so they can swim through pipes.
Who acts: Rats · What happens: be, hold, swim · To what, where: good swimmers, breath, pipes
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 (Rats), 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 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swimmers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swimmers | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swimmers | amod |
| 4 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hold | cc |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hold | aux |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swimmers | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breath | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 minutes | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minutes | amod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hold | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swim | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 swim | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swim | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 swim | aux |
| 18 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hold | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 pipes | case |
| 20 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swim | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swimmers | 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 | Rats | good swimmers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | can | Rats not said here | rats's breath | minute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 3 | swim | can | rats = rat | pipes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pipe=Trajectory |
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: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): R7-rel-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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