Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 9
Raccoons were brought to Europe and some escaped; now they live wild in Germany and are spreading to nearby countries.
Who acts: some, scientists · What happens: bring, escape, live, spread · To what, where: Raccoons, Europe, Germany
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 (some, 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 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Europe | case |
| 5 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 escaped | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 escaped | nsubj |
| 8 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | _ | 12 live | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 live | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Germany | case |
| 15 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spreading | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spreading | aux |
| 18 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 live | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 countries | case |
| 20 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 countries | amod |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spreading | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | 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 | bring | past · passive | Raccoons | Europe | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to europe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | escape | past | some | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present | scientists = scientist | Germany | now | wild property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in germany=Location | ||
| 4 | spread | present · progressive | scientists = scientist not said here | to nearby countries | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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 ×3. 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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