Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 6
A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive.
Who acts: raccoon, water · What happens: dip, feel, not wash, make · To what, where: food, water, raccoon, paws
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 (raccoon, water), 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 | 8 feeling | nsubj |
| 3 | dipping | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 raccoon | acl |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dipping | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 food | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feeling | aux |
| 8 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feeling | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 washing | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 washing | advmod |
| 12 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 feeling | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 washing | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feeling | parataxis |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 sensitive | advmod |
| 21 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | a raccoon not said here | food | water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | feel | present · progressive | a raccoon | food | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not wash | gerund | a raccoon not said here | raccoon | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | water | raccoon's paws | sensitive property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paw=Product |
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:6.
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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