Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 14

Australian possums, such as the brushtail possum that often lives in roofs, are different from American opossums; both are marsupials but from different families.

Who acts: brushtail possum, Australian possums, both · What happens: live, be · To what, where: roofs, American opossums, marsupials

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 (brushtail possum, Australian possums, both), 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	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 possums	amod
2	possums	possum	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 different	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 possum	punct
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 possum	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 possum	det
7	brushtail	brushtail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possum	compound
8	possum	possum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possums	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lives	nsubj
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 lives	advmod
11	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 possum	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 roofs	case
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lives	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 possums	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 different	cop
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 opossums	case
18	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 opossums	amod
19	opossums	opossum	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 different	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 marsupials	punct
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 marsupials	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 marsupials	cop
23	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 different	parataxis
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 families	cc
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 families	case
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 families	amod
27	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 marsupials	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 different	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	the brushtail possum		roofs	often property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location
2	is	present	Australian possums such the brushtail possum		American opossums	different property	tree rules
3	is a	present	both	marsupials but different families			tree rules

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:14.

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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