Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 13

Adult opossums cannot really hang by their tails for long like in cartoons; young ones can briefly, and the tail helps them grip branches and carry leaves.

Who acts: Adult opossums, tail, teeth · What happens: not hang, help, grip, carry · To what, where: teeth, branches, leaves

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 (Adult opossums, tail, teeth), 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	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 opossums	amod
2	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hang	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hang	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hang	advmod
6	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 tails	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tails	nmod:poss
9	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hang	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 long	case
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hang	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 cartoons	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 cartoons	case
14	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hang	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ones	punct
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ones	amod
17	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 briefly	aux
19	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	6 hang	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 helps	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 helps	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tail	det
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helps	nsubj
24	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 helps	obj
26	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 helps	xcomp
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grip	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 branches	cc
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 grip	conj
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carry	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hang	can	Adult opossums		by teeth's tails; like cartoons; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location
2	help	present	the tail	teeth = tooth		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	grip	infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here	branches		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Experiencer
4	carry	infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here	leaves		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

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:13.

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): R5-strong ×5, 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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