Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 7
The black mask round a raccoon's eyes may reduce glare and help it see at night, though scientists are not completely sure.
Who acts: black mask, raccoon, scientists · What happens: reduce, help, see, not be · To what, where: glare, raccoon
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 (black mask, raccoon, scientists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mask | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mask | amod |
| 3 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reduce | nsubj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 raccoon | det |
| 6 | raccoon | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 raccoon | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mask | nmod |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reduce | aux |
| 10 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reduce | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reduce | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 sure | mark |
| 20 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sure | advmod |
| 23 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 24 sure | advmod |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 see | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reduce | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | may | the black mask round a raccoon's eyes | glare | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer glare=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | the black mask round a raccoon's eyes not said here | raccoon | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | raccoon not said here | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | scientists | completely, sure property | 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:7.
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): no change. 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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