Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 10

A beaver family is the parents, this year's kits and last year's young, who help to build; young beavers leave at about two years old to make their own pond.

Who acts: beaver family, young, young beavers · What happens: be, help, build, leave, make · To what, where: parents, own pond

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 family, young, young beavers), 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	3 family	det
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 family	compound
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parents	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 parents	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parents	det
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kits	punct
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kits	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 year	case
11	kits	kit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parents	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 young	cc
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 year	amod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 young	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 year	case
16	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kits	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 help	nsubj
19	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 young	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 build	mark
21	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 leave	punct
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beavers	amod
24	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leave	nsubj
25	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 help	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 two	advmod
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 old	obl
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 leave	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 leave	advcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pond	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pond	amod
35	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 parents	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a beaver family	the parents and this year's kits and last year's young	tree rules
2	help	present	last year's young		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	build	to-infinitive	last year's young not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	leave	present	young beavers		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	young beavers not said here	young's own pond	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=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:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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