Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 3

Watch a grey squirrel in a park in autumn: it buries a nut, looks round, and sometimes digs a fake hole somewhere else.

Who acts: you, dormouse · What happens: watch, bury, look round, dig · To what, where: grey squirrel, park, nut, fake hole

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 (you, 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squirrel	det
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 squirrel	amod
4	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 autumn	case
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 buries	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buries	nsubj
12	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 nut	det
14	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buries	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 buries	conj
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 looks	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 digs	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 digs	cc
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 digs	advmod
21	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 buries	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hole	det
23	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hole	amod
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 digs	obj
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 digs	advmod
26	else	else	ADV	_	25 somewhere	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a grey squirrel	a park	autumn		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme
2	bury	present	dormouse	a nut				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
3	look round	present	dormouse not said here				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	dig	present	dormouse not said here	a fake hole			sometimes, somewhere property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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