The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 7
The Rat in the book is a water vole: it has a round blunt nose, small ears almost hidden in its fur and a short furry tail, while a brown rat has a pointed nose, big ears and a long scaly tail.
Who acts: Rat, part, brown rat · What happens: be, have, hide · To what, where: water vole, round blunt nose, small ears, fur, pointed nose
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 (Rat, part, brown rat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 vole | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rat | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 vole | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vole | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vole | compound |
| 9 | vole | vole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 vole | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 nose | det |
| 14 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nose | amod |
| 15 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nose | amod |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ears | punct |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ears | amod |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nose | conj |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 21 hidden | advmod |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ears | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fur | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fur | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tail | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tail | det |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tail | amod |
| 28 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tail | amod |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fur | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 has | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 has | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rat | det |
| 33 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rat | amod |
| 34 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 has | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 nose | det |
| 37 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 nose | amod |
| 38 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 has | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ears | punct |
| 40 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ears | amod |
| 41 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 nose | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 tail | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 tail | det |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tail | amod |
| 45 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tail | amod |
| 46 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nose | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 vole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Rat in the book | a water vole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | part | a round blunt nose and small ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | small ears not said here | part's fur and a short furry tail | almost property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fur=Location | |||
| 4 | have | present | a brown rat | a pointed nose and big ears and a long scaly tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
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:7.
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. 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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