The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 9

Real rats eat almost anything, have babies quickly and learn fast, and they spread round the world on people's ships and carts.

Who acts: Real rats, rat · What happens: eat, have, learn, spread · To what, where: anything, babies, ships

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 (Real rats, rat), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rats	amod
2	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 anything	advmod
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 learn	cc
11	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 learn	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spread	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spread	nsubj
16	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 ships	case
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ships	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 people	case
23	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spread	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carts	cc
25	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ships	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Real rats	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
2	have	present	Real rats not said here	babies		quickly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	learn	present	Real rats not said here			fast property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spread	present	rat		people's ships and carts	round the world	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=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:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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