Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 5
A raccoon's front paws have five fingers and are very sensitive, so it can open bin lids, jars and even door latches.
Who acts: front paws, possum · What happens: have, be, open · To what, where: five fingers, bin lids
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 (front paws, possum), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raccoon | det |
| 2 | raccoon | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paws | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 raccoon | case |
| 4 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 paws | amod |
| 5 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fingers | nummod |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sensitive | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sensitive | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 sensitive | advmod |
| 12 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 open | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 open | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 open | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 open | aux |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | parataxis |
| 18 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lids | compound |
| 19 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jars | punct |
| 21 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lids | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 latches | cc |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 latches | advmod |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 latches | compound |
| 25 | latches | latch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lids | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | 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 | a raccoon's front paws | five fingers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a raccoon's front paws not said here | sensitive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | can | possum | bin lids and jars and door latches | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=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:5.
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 ×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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