The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 11

Moles have tiny eyes that can tell light from dark but see very little; they find food by touch and smell with a pink, sensitive snout.

Who acts: Moles, tiny eyes, eyes · What happens: have, tell, see, find · To what, where: tiny eyes, light, dark, little, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Moles, tiny eyes, eyes), 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	Moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eyes	acl:relcl
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 dark	case
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tell	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 little	advmod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 touch	case
20	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 smell	cc
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touch	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	28 snout	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 snout	det
25	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 snout	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 snout	punct
27	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 snout	amod
28	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Moles	tiny eyes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	can	tiny eyes	light	dark		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient
3	see	present	tiny eyes not said here	little			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
4	find	present	eyes = eye	food		by touch and smell; with a pink sensitive snout	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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:11.

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, 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.

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