Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 20

Cats bury their droppings to hide their smell from bigger animals and rivals, and a cat that stops burying may be stressed or unwell.

Who acts: Cats, cat · What happens: bury, hide, stop, stress, smell · To what, where: droppings, smell, cat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 (Cats, cat), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bury	nsubj
2	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 droppings	nmod:poss
4	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bury	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bury	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 smell	nmod:poss
8	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rivals	cc
13	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 animals	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stressed	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stressed	nsubj:pass
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stops	nsubj
19	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cat	acl:relcl
20	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stops	xcomp
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stressed	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 stressed	aux:pass
23	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bury	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 unwell	cc
25	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stressed	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bury	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Cats	Cats's droppings		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	Cats's smell	from bigger animals and rivals	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent smell=Patient from animal=Beneficiary
3	stop	present	a cat			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	bury	gerund	a cat not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	stress	may · passive		a cat		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
6	smell		Cats = cat			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: 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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:20.

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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