Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 4
And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches.
Who acts: Australian possum, both · What happens: live, be, carry · To what, where: roof, different animal, American opossum, babies, pouches
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 (Australian possum, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 animal | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 possum | det |
| 3 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 possum | amod |
| 4 | possum | possum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 animal | nsubj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 possum | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 animal | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animal | amod |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 opossum | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 opossum | det |
| 15 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 opossum | amod |
| 16 | opossum | opossum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 animal | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 animal | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 babies | nmod:poss |
| 22 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pouches | case |
| 24 | pouches | pouch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | the Australian possum not said here | a roof | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Australian possum | a different animal | the American opossum | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | present | both | babies's babies | pouches | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in pouch=Location |
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:4.
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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