Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 0

A beaver is a builder with no tools at all: its teeth are the saw, its front paws are the hands, and its chest is the wheelbarrow for mud.

Who acts: beaver, teeth, front paws, chest · What happens: be · To what, where: builder, saw, hands, wheelbarrow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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 (beaver, teeth, front paws, chest), 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 beaver	det
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builder	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 builder	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 builder	det
5	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tools	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 tools	det
8	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 builder	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 tools	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 saw	det
16	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 builder	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hands	punct
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 paws	nmod:poss
19	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 paws	amod
20	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hands	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hands	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wheelbarrow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wheelbarrow	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chest	nmod:poss
27	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wheelbarrow	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wheelbarrow	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wheelbarrow	det
30	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 mud	case
32	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wheelbarrow	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 builder	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a beaver	a builder	with no tools at all	tree rules
2	is a	present	beaver's teeth	the saw and the hands and the wheelbarrow		tree rules
3	is a	present	beaver's front paws	the hands		tree rules
4	is a	present	beaver's chest	the wheelbarrow	for mud	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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:0.

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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