Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 1
A raccoon seems to wash its food in a stream, but really it is feeling it, because water makes its paws even more sensitive; its black mask may help it see at night by cutting glare.
Who acts: raccoon, it, water, black mask · What happens: seem, wash, feel, make, help, see · To what, where: food, stream, raccoon, paws, glare
This is a sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 (raccoon, it, water, black mask), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raccoon | det |
| 2 | raccoon | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wash | mark |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 food | nmod:poss |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wash | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wash | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeling | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 feeling | cc |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 feeling | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feeling | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feeling | aux |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seems | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feeling | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 makes | mark |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feeling | advcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 paws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 makes | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 sensitive | advmod |
| 26 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 makes | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 help | punct |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mask | nmod:poss |
| 29 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mask | amod |
| 30 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 help | nsubj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 help | aux |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seems | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 help | xcomp |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obl |
| 37 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 38 cutting | mark |
| 38 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 34 see | advcl |
| 39 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cutting | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | a raccoon | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | a raccoon not said here | raccoon's food | a stream | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | present · progressive | it | raccoon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | water | raccoon's paws | sensitive property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paw=Product | |||
| 5 | help | may | raccoon's black mask | raccoon | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | raccoon not said here | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | cut | gerund | raccoon not said here | glare | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glare=Product |
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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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