Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 0

Rodents have spread into almost every way of life: some glide between trees at night, some live in huge towns underground, some wear armour of quills, and some sleep away half the year.

Who acts: Rodents, some · What happens: spread, glide, live, wear, sleep away · To what, where: way, trees, huge towns, armour

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (Rodents, some), 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	Rodents	rodent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 glide	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 glide	nsubj
12	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 trees	case
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 glide	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glide	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 live	nsubj
19	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glide	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 towns	case
21	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 towns	amod
22	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 live	obl
23	underground	underground	ADV	_	19 live	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wear	punct
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 wear	nsubj
26	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glide	conj
27	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wear	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 quills	case
29	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 armour	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sleep	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sleep	cc
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sleep	nsubj
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 glide	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 sleep	advmod
35	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	37 year	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 year	det
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sleep	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present · perfect	Rodents		every way of life			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into way=Destination
2	glide	present	some		trees	night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory
3	live	present	some		huge towns		underground property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
4	wear	present	some	armour of quills				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armour=Source
5	sleep away	present	some			year	away property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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