Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 4

Thousands of wild boar live in and around Berlin, digging up parks, gardens and graveyards for roots and grubs, because cities give them food and no hunters.

Who acts: Thousands, cities · What happens: live, dig up, give · To what, where: Berlin, parks, food

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 (Thousands, cities), 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	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 boar	case
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boar	amod
4	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thousands	nmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Berlin	case
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Berlin	cc
8	around	around	ADP	_	6 in	conj
9	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 digging	punct
11	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 live	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 digging	compound:prt
13	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 digging	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gardens	punct
15	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 parks	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 graveyards	cc
17	graveyards	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 parks	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 roots	case
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 digging	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grubs	cc
21	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roots	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 give	mark
24	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 give	nsubj
25	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hunters	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 hunters	det
30	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 food	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Thousands of wild boar			Berlin		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in berlin=Location
2	dig up	gerund	Thousands of wild boar not said here	parks and gardens and graveyards			for roots and grubs	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent park=Result for root=Beneficiary
3	give	present	cities	food and no hunters	parks = park			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme

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:4.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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