Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 17
The hazel dormouse gets very fat in autumn on hazelnuts and berries and sleeps through winter for up to about six months; hazel dormice in Britain have fallen by about half since 2000, reported.
Who acts: hazel dormouse, hazel dormice · What happens: get, sleep, fall, report
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 (hazel dormouse, hazel dormice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dormouse | det |
| 2 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dormouse | compound |
| 3 | dormouse | dormouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fat | advmod |
| 6 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 autumn | case |
| 8 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hazelnuts | case |
| 10 | hazelnuts | hazelnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 autumn | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 berries | cc |
| 12 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hazelnuts | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sleeps | cc |
| 14 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 winter | case |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleeps | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 up | case |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 six | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 months | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 six | advmod |
| 21 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 months | nummod |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sleeps | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| 24 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dormice | compound |
| 25 | dormice | dormouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fallen | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Britain | case |
| 27 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 dormice | nmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fallen | aux |
| 29 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 half | case |
| 31 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 half | advmod |
| 32 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 fallen | obl |
| 33 | since | since | ADP | _ | 34 2000 | case |
| 34 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 fallen | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reported | punct |
| 36 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the hazel dormouse | autumn | fat property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | sleep | present | the hazel dormouse not said here | month; winter | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | present · perfect | hazel dormice in Britain | since 2000 | by half | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by half=Location | |||
| 4 | report | past | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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