Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 8

Alpine marmots are big ground squirrels that whistle to warn each other of eagles and foxes and hibernate for about six months in family groups; the American groundhog is a marmot too.

Who acts: Alpine marmots, big ground squirrels, American groundhog · What happens: be, whistle, warn, hibernate · To what, where: big ground squirrels, other, family groups, marmot

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 (Alpine marmots, big ground squirrels, American groundhog), 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	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marmots	amod
2	marmots	marmot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 squirrels	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squirrels	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squirrels	amod
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirrels	compound
6	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 whistle	nsubj
8	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squirrels	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 warn	mark
10	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 whistle	advcl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warn	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 eagles	case
14	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 other	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foxes	cc
16	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eagles	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hibernate	cc
18	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 warn	conj
19	for	for	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	18 hibernate	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 groups	case
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 groups	compound
25	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hibernate	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 marmot	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 groundhog	det
28	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 groundhog	amod
29	groundhog	groundhog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marmot	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 marmot	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 marmot	det
32	marmot	marmot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirrels	parataxis
33	too	too	ADV	_	32 marmot	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 squirrels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Alpine marmots	big ground squirrels			tree rules
2	whistle	present	big ground squirrels				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	big ground squirrels not said here	each other of eagles and foxes			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
4	hibernate	infinitive	big ground squirrels not said here		family groups	month	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location
5	is a	present	the American groundhog	a marmot			tree rules

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:8.

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): 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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