The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 0

«The Wind in the Willows» is about a Water Rat, a Mole, an Otter and a Toad who row boats, eat picnics and drive motor-cars.

Who acts: Toad · What happens: row, eat, drive · To what, where: boats, picnics, motor cars

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Toad), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 Wind	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
3	Wind	wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 about	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Willows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Willows	det
6	Willows	willow	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Wind	nmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 Wind	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADP	_	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Rat	det
11	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	compound
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 about	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mole	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Mole	det
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Otter	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Otter	det
18	Otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Toad	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Toad	det
21	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Rat	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 row	nsubj
23	row	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Toad	acl:relcl
24	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 row	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eat	punct
26	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 row	conj
27	picnics	picnic	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eat	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drive	cc
29	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 eat	conj
30	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cars	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 motor	punct
32	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drive	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Rat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	row	present	a Toad	boats	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location
2	eat	present	a Toad not said here	picnics	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picnic=Patient
3	drive	present	a Toad not said here	motor cars	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/0/