Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 18

A dormouse leaves a smooth round hole with tooth marks around the edge in a hazelnut; volunteers hunt for nibbled nuts to find where rare dormice live.

Who acts: dormouse, volunteers, rare dormice · What happens: leave, hunt, nibble, find, live · To what, where: smooth round hole, edge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dormouse, volunteers, rare 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dormouse	det
2	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nsubj
3	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
6	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hole	amod
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 marks	case
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marks	compound
10	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hole	nmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hazelnut	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hazelnut	det
16	hazelnut	hazelnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 edge	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hunt	punct
18	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunt	nsubj
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leaves	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 nuts	case
21	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 nuts	amod
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunt	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hunt	advcl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 live	advmod
26	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dormice	amod
27	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 live	nsubj
28	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 find	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	a dormouse	a smooth round hole	the edge in a hazelnut	with tooth marks	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme around edge=Location
2	hunt	present	volunteers			for nibbled nuts	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for nut=Theme
3	nibble	participle					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	to-infinitive	volunteers not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	live	present	rare dormice				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.

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 ×3, 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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