Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 11

A beaver slaps its flat scaly tail on the water to warn the family of danger; the tail also steers, stores fat and props the beaver up while it chews a tree.

Who acts: beaver, tail · What happens: slap, warn, steer, store, prop up, chew · To what, where: flat scaly tail, family, fat, beaver, tree

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, tail), 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	3 slaps	nsubj
3	slaps	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
6	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slaps	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slaps	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 warn	mark
12	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slaps	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warn	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 danger	case
16	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 family	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tail	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steers	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 steers	advmod
21	steers	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slaps	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stores	punct
23	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 steers	conj
24	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stores	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 props	cc
26	props	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 steers	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beaver	det
28	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 props	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	26 props	compound:prt
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 chews	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 chews	nsubj
32	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 props	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tree	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chews	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slaps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slap	present	a beaver	beaver's flat scaly tail		on the water	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tail=Instrument on water=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	a beaver not said here	the family of danger			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient
3	steer	present	the tail				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	store	present	the tail not said here	fat			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
5	prop up	present	the tail not said here		the beaver		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent beaver=Destination
6	chew	present	beaver	a tree			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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:11.

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): 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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