The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 1

Under the jokes are real British animals, and Kenneth Grahame watched them closely on the River Thames.

Who acts: Kenneth · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: animals, River

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 (Kenneth), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	7 animals	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jokes	det
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	obl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 watched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watched	cc
10	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 watched	nsubj
11	Grahame	Grahame	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kenneth	flat
12	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watched	obj
14	closely	closely	ADV	_	12 watched	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 River	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Thames	det
17	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 watched	obl
18	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	flat
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						under real British animals; the jokes obl	tree rules
2	watch	past	Kenneth	animals = animal		River		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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