The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 6
A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into its front prints, and its prints show four toes and claw marks; dogs wander about more.
Who acts: fox, prints, dogs · What happens: walk, put, show, wander, print · To what, where: straight line, back feet, front prints, four toes
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 (fox, prints, dogs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 line | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 line | det |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 straight | advmod |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 line | amod |
| 8 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 putting | punct |
| 10 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walks | advcl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | compound |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 putting | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 prints | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 prints | nmod:poss |
| 16 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prints | amod |
| 17 | prints | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 putting | obl | |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 show | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prints | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prints | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 show | nsubj | |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walks | conj |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 toes | nummod |
| 24 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 show | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 marks | cc |
| 26 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marks | compound |
| 27 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 toes | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 wander | punct |
| 29 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wander | nsubj |
| 30 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walks | parataxis |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 more | case |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 wander | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a fox | a straight line | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | a fox not said here | fox's back feet | fox's front prints | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | |||
| 3 | show | present | fox's prints | four toes and claw marks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toe=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wander | present | dogs | about more | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about more=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | fox | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent | |||||||
| 6 | fox | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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