The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 1

Real stoats and weasels are not wicked: they are small hunters that must catch mice, voles and rabbits to live, just as a robin must catch worms.

Who acts: Real stoats, stoats, small hunters, robin · What happens: not be, be, catch, live · To what, where: small hunters, mice, worms

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (Real stoats, stoats, small hunters, robin), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stoats	amod
2	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wicked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weasels	cc
4	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stoats	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wicked	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wicked	advmod
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hunters	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunters	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hunters	cop
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hunters	amod
12	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wicked	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 catch	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	aux
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hunters	acl:relcl
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 catch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 voles	punct
18	voles	vole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mice	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rabbits	cc
20	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mice	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 live	mark
22	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 catch	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	29 catch	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 catch	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 robin	det
27	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 catch	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 catch	aux
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	advcl
30	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 catch	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Real stoats and weasels		wicked property	tree rules
2	is a	present	stoats = stoat	small hunters		tree rules
3	catch	must	small hunters	mice and voles and rabbits		tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	small hunters not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	must	a robin	worms		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Theme

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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:1.

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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