The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 11

A stoat and a weasel look alike, but a stoat is bigger and always has a black tip on its tail, while a weasel is smaller, with a short tail and no black tip.

Who acts: stoat, weasel · What happens: look, be, have · To what, where: black tip, tail

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 (stoat, weasel), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stoat	det
2	stoat	stoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 weasel	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weasel	det
5	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stoat	conj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bigger	conj
7	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bigger	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 bigger	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stoat	det
11	stoat	stoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bigger	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bigger	cop
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 has	cc
15	always	always	ADV	_	16 has	advmod
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bigger	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tip	det
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tip	amod
19	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 tail	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tail	nmod:poss
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tip	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 smaller	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 smaller	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 weasel	det
26	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smaller	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 smaller	cop
28	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 has	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tail	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 tail	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tail	det
32	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tail	amod
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smaller	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tip	cc
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 tip	det
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tip	amod
37	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tail	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	a stoat and a weasel			alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	a stoat			big property	tree rules
3	have	present	a stoat not said here	a black tip	Badger's tail	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient
4	is	present	a weasel			with a short tail and no black tip; small property	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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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