Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 12
The Virginia opossum has fifty teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, and eats almost anything.
Who acts: Virginia opossum · What happens: have, eat · To what, where: fifty teeth, anything
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 (Virginia opossum), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 opossum | det |
| 2 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opossum | compound |
| 3 | opossum | opossum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 teeth | nummod |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 more | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 teeth | amod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 mammal | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 mammal | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mammal | amod |
| 12 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 American | compound |
| 13 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mammal | amod |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mammal | compound |
| 15 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 more | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eats | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eats | cc |
| 18 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 anything | advmod |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 eats | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Virginia opossum | fifty teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | the Virginia opossum not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:12.
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 ×2. 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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