The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 3

The March Hare is mad because of an old saying, «mad as a March hare»: in spring, hares chase each other and stand up and «box» in the fields.

Who acts: March Hare, hares · What happens: be, chase, stand up · To what, where: each

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 (March Hare, hares), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 saying	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saying	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	amod
10	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	appos
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 hare	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hare	det
16	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 hare	compound
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mad	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 chase	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 spring	case
21	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chase	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spring	punct
23	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 chase	nsubj
24	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	parataxis
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 chase	obj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stand	cc
28	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 chase	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 stand	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 box	cc
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 box	punct
32	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	conj
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 box	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 fields	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fields	det
36	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 box	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the March Hare			because a old saying; mad property	tree rules
2	chase	present	hares	each	spring		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
3	stand up	present	hares not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «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:3.

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 ×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.

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