Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 14

Beavers cannot control well which way a tree falls, and falling trees sometimes kill them; trees near water often lean towards the water anyway.

Who acts: Beavers, tree, falling trees, trees · What happens: not control, fall, kill, lean · To what, where: way, hundreds

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 (Beavers, tree, falling trees, trees), 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	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 control	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 control	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 control	advmod
4	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 control	advmod
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 control	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falls	nsubj
10	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kill	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kill	cc
13	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 trees	amod
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kill	nsubj
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 kill	advmod
16	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 control	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kill	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 control	punct
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lean	nsubj
20	near	near	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	nmod
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 lean	advmod
23	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 control	parataxis
24	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lean	obl
27	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	23 lean	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 control	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not control	can	Beavers	which way	well property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	fall	present	a tree	which way not said here		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result
3	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kill	present	falling trees	hundreds = hundred	sometimes property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	lean	present	trees near water		towards the water; anyway, often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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): R2-punct-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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