The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 15

Otter cubs stay with their mother for about a year, and at first they are nervous of the water: the mother has to coax them in and teach them to swim and fish.

Who acts: Otter cubs, cubs, mother · What happens: stay, be, have, coax in, teach, swim · To what, where: cubs

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 (Otter cubs, cubs, mother), 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	Otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cubs	compound
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 year	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nervous	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nervous	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 nervous	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 nervous	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nervous	cop
17	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nervous	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mother	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nervous	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 coax	mark
26	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 has	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 coax	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	26 coax	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 teach	cc
30	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 coax	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 teach	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 swim	mark
33	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 teach	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fish	cc
35	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 swim	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Otter cubs			year	with cubs's mother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location
2	is	present	cubs = cub				of the water; nervous property	tree rules
3	have	present	the mother					tree rules
4	coax in	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	cubs = cub				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	teach speech: other	infinitive	the mother not said here		cubs = cub			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	swim	to-infinitive	the mother not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fish	infinitive	the mother not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «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:15.

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): R7-rel-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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