Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 1

For an animal, a city is a giant larder with warm corners: overflowing bins, fruit trees, bird feeders, and hardly any hunters.

Who acts: city · What happens: be, overflow · To what, where: giant larder

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (city), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 animal	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 larder	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 animal	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 larder	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 larder	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 larder	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 larder	amod
10	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 corners	case
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 corners	amod
13	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 larder	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 bins	punct
15	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 bins	amod
16	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 larder	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trees	punct
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bins	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feeders	punct
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feeders	compound
22	feeders	feeder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bins	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hunters	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hunters	cc
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 hunters	advmod
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 hunters	det
27	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bins	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 larder	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	is a	present	a city	a giant larder				for a animal; with warm corners	tree rules
2	overflow	gerund							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:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:1.

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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