Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 11
Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.
Who acts: Opossums, tiny babies · What happens: be, grow, ride · To what, where: marsupials, pouch, back
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 (Opossums, tiny babies), 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 | Opossums | opossum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 marsupials | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marsupials | cop |
| 3 | marsupials | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 grow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 babies | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 babies | amod |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marsupials | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pouch | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grow | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ride | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 ride | advmod |
| 16 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 back | nmod:poss |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ride | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marsupials | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Opossums | marsupials | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the tiny babies | babies's mother's pouch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pouch=Location | ||||
| 3 | ride | present | the tiny babies not said here | smell's back | late property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:11.
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): R8-pos-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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