Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 15

Chinchillas of the high Andes have one of the thickest furs of any land animal, with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin, and they bathe in dust because wet fur dries too slowly.

Who acts: Chinchillas, wet fur · What happens: have, bathe, dry · To what, where: one

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 (Chinchillas, wet fur), 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	Chinchillas	chinchilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Andes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Andes	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Andes	amod
5	Andes	Andes	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Chinchillas	nmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 furs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 furs	det
10	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 furs	amod
11	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 animal	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 animal	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 animal	compound
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 furs	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dozens	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 dozens	case
18	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 furs	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hairs	case
20	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dozens	nmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 hole	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hole	det
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hole	amod
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hairs	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 skin	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skin	det
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hole	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bathe	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bathe	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bathe	nsubj
31	bathe	bathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 dust	case
33	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bathe	obl
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 dries	mark
35	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fur	amod
36	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dries	nsubj
37	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bathe	advcl
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 slowly	advmod
39	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	37 dries	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Chinchillas of the high Andes	one of the thickest furs of any land animal with dozens of hairs from each tiny hole in the skin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	bathe	present	chinchillas = chinchilla		in dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dust=Theme
3	dry	present	wet fur		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:15.

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): no change. 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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