The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 2
Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its heart beats about twenty times a minute instead of nearly two hundred, while the squirrel is wide awake, digging up nuts and raiding the bird feeder.
Who acts: hedgehog, heart, squirrel · What happens: be, beat about, dig up, raid · To what, where: nuts, bird feeder
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (hedgehog, heart, squirrel), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 10 asleep | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hedgehog | det |
| 3 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 shed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shed | det |
| 6 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hedgehog | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 asleep | advmod |
| 9 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 10 asleep | advmod |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 beats | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beats | nsubj |
| 14 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asleep | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 twenty | advmod |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beats | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minute | det |
| 19 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 hundred | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 hundred | advmod |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | nummod |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 beats | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 awake | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 awake | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 squirrel | det |
| 28 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 awake | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 awake | cop |
| 30 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 31 awake | advmod |
| 31 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 asleep | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 digging | punct |
| 33 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 awake | advcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 digging | compound:prt |
| 35 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 digging | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 raiding | cc |
| 37 | raiding | raid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 digging | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 feeder | det |
| 39 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 feeder | compound |
| 40 | feeder | feeder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 raiding | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the hedgehog under the shed | asleep, deeply, meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat about | present | hedgehog's heart | time | instead two hundred | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | the squirrel | awake, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dig up | gerund | the squirrel not said here | nuts | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 5 | raid | gerund | the squirrel not said here | the bird feeder | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent feeder=Location |
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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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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