The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 13

Moles do not hibernate; they keep digging all winter, going deeper when the ground freezes, and they live alone except when they meet to breed in spring.

Who acts: Moles, eyes, ground · What happens: not hibernate, keep, dig, go, freeze, live

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, eyes, ground), 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	4 hibernate	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hibernate	advmod
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	parataxis
8	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keep	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 digging	conj
13	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 going	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 freezes	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 freezes	nsubj
17	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 live	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 live	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 live	nsubj
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	conj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 live	advmod
23	except	except	ADP	_	26 meet	mark
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 meet	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meet	nsubj
26	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 live	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 breed	mark
28	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 meet	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 spring	case
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hibernate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not hibernate	present · do-support	Moles			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	keep	present	eyes = eye			tree rules
3	dig	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	winter		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	gerund	eyes = eye not said here		deep property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	freeze	present	the ground			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	live	present	eyes = eye		alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	meet	present	eyes = eye			tree rules
8	breed	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	spring		tree rules

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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