Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 7
In experiments, beavers piled sticks on a loudspeaker playing the sound of running water, so the sound of a leak makes them build: much of their building is instinct, not planning.
Who acts: beavers, loudspeaker, sound, sticks, much · What happens: pile, play, make, build, be · To what, where: sticks, experiments, sound, instinct
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, loudspeaker, sound, sticks), 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 | _ | 2 experiments | case |
| 2 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piled | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 experiments | punct |
| 4 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piled | nsubj |
| 5 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piled | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 loudspeaker | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 loudspeaker | det |
| 9 | loudspeaker | loudspeaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piled | obl |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 loudspeaker | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 running | case |
| 14 | running | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | nmod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 makes | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 makes | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 leak | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leak | det |
| 22 | leak | leak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | nmod |
| 23 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 piled | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 makes | obj |
| 25 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 makes | xcomp |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 piled | punct |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 instinct | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 building | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 building | nmod:poss |
| 30 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 much | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 instinct | cop |
| 32 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piled | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 planning | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 planning | advmod |
| 35 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 instinct | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past | beavers | sticks | experiments | on a loudspeaker | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in experiment=Destination | ||
| 2 | play | gerund | a loudspeaker not said here | the sound of running water | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | the sound of a leak | sticks = stick | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build | infinitive | sticks = stick not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | much of sticks's building | instinct and planning | tree rules |
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:7.
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, R8-pos-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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