Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 10

Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms; in about 1900 one town in Texas was reported to hold hundreds of millions of them.

Who acts: Prairie dogs, ground squirrels · What happens: be, live, report, hold · To what, where: ground squirrels, huge underground towns, one town, 1900, hundreds

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 (Prairie dogs, ground squirrels), 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	Prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dogs	compound
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 squirrels	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 squirrels	cop
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squirrels	compound
5	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 squirrels	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 towns	case
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 towns	amod
9	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 towns	amod
10	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 living	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 entrances	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 entrances	amod
13	entrances	entrance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 towns	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rooms	cc
15	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 entrances	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 reported	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 1900	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 1900	advmod
19	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 reported	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 town	nummod
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reported	nsubj:pass
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Texas	case
23	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 town	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reported	aux:pass
25	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 squirrels	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hold	mark
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reported	xcomp
28	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hold	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 millions	case
30	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hundreds	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 millions	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 squirrels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Prairie dogs	ground squirrels		tree rules
2	live	gerund	ground squirrels not said here		huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
3	report	past · passive		one town in Texas	1900	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	hold	to-infinitive		hundreds of millions of squirrels		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme

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:10.

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 ×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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