The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 12
Hares are not rodents; they are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, they live above ground instead of in burrows, and their babies are born with fur and open eyes.
Who acts: Hares, sailors · What happens: not be, be, live, bear · To what, where: rodents, ground, babies
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (Hares, sailors), 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 | Hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rodents | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rodents | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 rodents | advmod |
| 4 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 bigger | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bigger | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bigger | cop |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rodents | parataxis |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 rabbits | case |
| 10 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bigger | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ears | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ears | case |
| 13 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 ears | amod |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bigger | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 legs | cc |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ears | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ears | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | nsubj |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rodents | conj |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 25 burrows | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 burrows | case |
| 25 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 live | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 born | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 born | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 babies | nmod:poss |
| 29 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 born | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 born | aux:pass |
| 31 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 live | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 fur | case |
| 33 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 born | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 eyes | cc |
| 35 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 eyes | amod |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fur | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rodents | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Hares | rodents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sailors = sailor | than rabbits; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | sailors = sailor | ground | instead burrows | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ground=Location | |||
| 4 | bear | present · passive | sailors's babies | with fur and open eyes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:12.
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 ×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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