Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 1

When you see a tree in the park chewed into a pencil point, a beaver has been working there, cutting wood to build a dam across a stream.

Who acts: you, tree, beaver · What happens: see, chew, work, cut, build · To what, where: pencil point, wood, dam, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, tree, beaver), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 see	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 working	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chewed	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	nmod
9	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 point	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 point	det
12	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 point	compound
13	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chewed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 working	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beaver	det
16	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 working	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 working	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 working	aux
19	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 working	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cutting	punct
22	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 working	advcl
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cutting	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 build	mark
25	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cutting	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dam	det
27	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 build	obj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 stream	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stream	det
30	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 build	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 working	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	chew	past	a tree in the park		a pencil point	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	present · perfect · progressive	a beaver		there	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut	gerund	a beaver not said here	wood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
5	build	to-infinitive	a beaver not said here	a dam	a stream	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dam=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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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