Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 9
On Groundhog Day in America people pretend a groundhog predicts when spring will come, but no animal can really forecast the weather weeks ahead.
Who acts: people, groundhog, spring, animal · What happens: pretend, predict, come, forecast
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 (people, groundhog, spring, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Day | case |
| 2 | Groundhog | Groundhog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Day | compound |
| 3 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pretend | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 America | case |
| 5 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Day | nmod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pretend | nsubj |
| 7 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 groundhog | det |
| 9 | groundhog | groundhog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 predicts | nsubj |
| 10 | predicts | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretend | ccomp |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 predicts | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forecast | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 forecast | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 animal | det |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forecast | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 forecast | aux |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 forecast | advmod |
| 21 | forecast | forecast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pretend | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 weather | det |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 weeks | compound |
| 24 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ahead | obl |
| 25 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 21 forecast | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present | people | on Groundhog Day in America | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | predict | present | a groundhog | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | come | future | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | forecast | can | no animal | ahead property | 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:9.
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. 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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