Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 17
In the Ice Age there lived a giant beaver about as big as a black bear.
What happens: live · To what, where: giant beaver, Ice Age
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Age | det |
| 3 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | compound |
| 4 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | expl |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beaver | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beaver | amod |
| 9 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beaver | amod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 bear | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bear | amod |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 big | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a giant beaver | there | in the Ice Age | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme beaver=Location |
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:17.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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