The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 14

An otter's home in the river bank is called a holt; otters mostly eat fish and eels, and also frogs and crayfish, and they mark their stretch of river with droppings called spraints.

Who acts: otters, eyes, droppings · What happens: call, eat, mark · To what, where: home, fish, stretch, spraints · 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 (otters, eyes, droppings), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 otter	det
2	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 otter	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	compound
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 holt	det
12	holt	holt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
14	otters	otter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	nsubj
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 holt	parataxis
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eels	cc
19	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fish	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 frogs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 frogs	cc
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 frogs	advmod
23	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fish	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crayfish	cc
25	crayfish	crayfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 frogs	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mark	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mark	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mark	nsubj
29	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 stretch	nmod:poss
31	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mark	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 river	case
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stretch	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 droppings	case
35	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mark	obl
36	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 droppings	acl
37	spraints	spraint	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 called	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		a otter's home in the river bank		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	eat	present	otters	fish and eels and frogs and crayfish	mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	mark	present	eyes = eye	eyes's stretch of river	with droppings	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent stretch=Destination with dropping=Theme
4	call	participle	droppings not said here	spraints		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:14.

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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