Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 2

The dam holds back the water like the plug in a bath, so the stream becomes a deep pond that does not freeze to the bottom in winter.

Who acts: dam, stream, deep pond · What happens: hold back, become, not freeze · To what, where: water, deep 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 (dam, stream, deep pond), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dam	det
2	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADP	_	3 holds	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 plug	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plug	det
9	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bath	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bath	det
12	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plug	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 becomes	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 becomes	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 becomes	nsubj
17	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pond	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pond	amod
20	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 becomes	xcomp
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 freeze	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 freeze	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 freeze	advmod
24	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pond	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 freeze	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 winter	case
29	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 freeze	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold back	present	the dam	the water		like the plug in a bath	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	become	present	the stream	a deep pond			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not freeze	present · do-support	a deep pond		winter	to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:2.

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. 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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