Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 8

Beavers have no hammer or nails: they push sticks into the mud bottom, pile them up and plaster them with mud carried against their chests.

Who acts: Beavers, hammer · What happens: have, push, pile up, plaster, carry · To what, where: hammer, sticks, mud bottom, mud

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, hammer), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 hammer	det
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nails	cc
6	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hammer	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 push	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 push	nsubj
9	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 push	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 bottom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottom	det
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bottom	compound
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 push	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pile	punct
16	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 push	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pile	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 pile	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plaster	cc
20	plaster	plaster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 push	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 plaster	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 mud	case
23	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plaster	obl
24	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 mud	acl
25	against	against	ADP	_	27 chests	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chests	nmod:poss
27	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 carried	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Beavers	no hammer or nails			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient
2	push	present	hammer	sticks	the mud bottom		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into bottom=Destination
3	pile up	present	hammer not said here	sticks = stick			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
4	plaster	present	hammer not said here	sticks = stick		with mud	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with mud=Theme
5	carry	participle		mud not said here		against sticks's chests	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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