The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 13

In spring hares chase each other and stand up on their back legs to «box»; this is usually a female hitting a male who is bothering her, not two males fighting.

Who acts: hares, this, female, male, two males · What happens: chase, stand up, box, be, hit, bother · To what, where: each, back legs, female, male, Hare

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, this, female, male), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spring	case
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	obl
3	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	nsubj
4	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 female	parataxis
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 chase	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stand	cc
8	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stand	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 legs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legs	compound
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stand	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 box	mark
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 box	punct
16	box	box	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 legs	acl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 box	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 chase	punct
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 female	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 female	cop
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	23 female	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 female	det
23	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 female	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 male	det
26	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hitting	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 bothering	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bothering	aux
29	bothering	bother	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 male	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bothering	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 males	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 males	advmod
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 males	nummod
34	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 female	conj
35	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 males	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chase	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	hares	each		spring		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	stand up	present	hares not said here		sailors's back legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
3	box in a quote	to-infinitive	hares not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	this	a female and two males			usually property	tree rules
5	hit	gerund	a female and two males not said here	a male				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme male=Co-Theme
6	bother	present · progressive	a male	Hare				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	fight	gerund	two males not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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