Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 5
Beavers build dams of sticks, stones and mud to make a deep pond, and the biggest known beaver dam, in Canada, is about 850 metres long and shows up in satellite pictures.
Who acts: Beavers, biggest known beaver dam · What happens: build, make, know, be, show up · To what, where: dams, deep pond, 850 metres, satellite pictures
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, biggest known beaver dam), 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 | 2 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sticks | case |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dams | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stones | punct |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sticks | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mud | cc |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sticks | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 build | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pond | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pond | amod |
| 14 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 metres | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dam | det |
| 18 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 dam | amod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dam | amod |
| 20 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dam | compound |
| 21 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 metres | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dam | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Canada | case |
| 24 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dam | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dam | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 metres | cop |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 850 | advmod |
| 28 | 850 | 850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 metres | nummod |
| 29 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | conj |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 metres | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shows | cc |
| 32 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 metres | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 shows | compound:prt |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pictures | case |
| 35 | satellite | satellite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pictures | compound |
| 36 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shows | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Beavers | dams of sticks and stones and mud | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Beavers not said here | a deep pond | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the biggest known beaver dam in Canada | 850 metres | long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | show up | present | the biggest known beaver dam in Canada not said here | satellite pictures | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in picture=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:5.
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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