Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 2

Porcupines carry thousands of barbed quills, chinchillas wear one of the thickest furs on Earth, and the tiny hazel dormouse curls into a tight golden ball to sleep through winter.

Who acts: Porcupines, chinchillas, tiny hazel dormouse · What happens: carry, wear, curl, sleep · To what, where: thousands, one, tight golden ball

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 (Porcupines, chinchillas, tiny hazel dormouse), 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	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 quills	case
5	barbed	barbed	ADJ	_	6 quills	amod
6	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wear	punct
8	chinchillas	chinchilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wear	nsubj
9	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 furs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 furs	det
13	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 furs	amod
14	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 Earth	case
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 furs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 curls	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 curls	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dormouse	det
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dormouse	amod
21	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dormouse	compound
22	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 curls	nsubj
23	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wear	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	28 ball	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ball	det
26	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ball	amod
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ball	amod
28	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 curls	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ball	acl
31	through	through	ADP	_	32 winter	case
32	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleep	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	carry	present	Porcupines	thousands of barbed quills			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	wear	present	chinchillas	one of the thickest furs on Earth			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source
3	curl	present	the tiny hazel dormouse		a tight golden ball		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the tiny hazel dormouse not said here			winter	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:2.

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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