Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 6
Squirrels have been reported to pretend to bury a nut when another animal is watching.
Who acts: animal · What happens: report, pretend, bury, watch · To what, where: Squirrels, nut
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 (animal), 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 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reported | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 reported | aux:pass |
| 4 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pretend | mark |
| 6 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reported | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bury | mark |
| 8 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pretend | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nut | det |
| 10 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bury | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 watching | advmod |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 animal | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watching | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 watching | aux |
| 15 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bury | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | present · perfect · passive | Squirrels | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pretend | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bury | to-infinitive | a nut | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | |||||
| 4 | watch | present · progressive | another animal | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:6.
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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