More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 8
Moles dig tunnels and push the soil up into molehills; worms fall into the tunnels and the mole patrols them, and it keeps a larder of worms with bitten heads.
Who acts: Moles, worms, mole, nest · What happens: dig, push up, fall, patrol, keep, bite · To what, where: tunnels, soil, molehills, worms, larder
This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (Moles, worms, mole, nest), 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 | Moles | mole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dig | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 push | cc |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dig | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soil | det |
| 7 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 push | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 molehills | case |
| 10 | molehills | molehill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 worms | punct |
| 12 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dig | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 tunnels | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tunnels | det |
| 16 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fall | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 patrols | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mole | det |
| 19 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 patrols | nsubj |
| 20 | patrols | patrol | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 patrols | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 keeps | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 keeps | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 keeps | nsubj |
| 25 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dig | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 larder | det |
| 27 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeps | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 worms | case |
| 29 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 larder | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 heads | case |
| 31 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 heads | amod |
| 32 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 worms | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dig | 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 | dig | present | Moles | tunnels | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push up | present | Moles not said here | the soil | molehills | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Theme into molehill=Destination | |||
| 3 | fall | present | worms | into the tunnels result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tunnel=Result | ||||
| 4 | patrol | present | the mole | worms = worm | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | nest | a larder of worms with bitten heads | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larder=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R1-cc-next ×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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