Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 8
Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys.
Who acts: Raccoons, scientists · What happens: be, raid, nest · To what, where: North American cities, bins, attics
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 (Raccoons, 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 | Raccoons | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 common | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 common | cop |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cities | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cities | compound |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cities | amod |
| 7 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 common | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Toronto | case |
| 9 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cities | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raid | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 raid | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 raid | nsubj |
| 13 | raid | raid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cities | acl:relcl |
| 14 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 raid | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nest | cc |
| 16 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 raid | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 attics | case |
| 18 | attics | attic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nest | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chimneys | cc |
| 20 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 attics | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 common | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Raccoons | North American cities like Toronto | common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raid | present | scientists = scientist | bins | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bin=Location | ||||
| 3 | nest | present | scientists = scientist not said here | attics and chimneys | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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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