The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 12

In cold northern places a stoat's coat turns white in winter, keeping only the black tail tip; this white fur is called ermine and was once used on kings' robes.

Who acts: coat · What happens: turn, keep, call, use · To what, where: cold northern places, black tail tip, white fur, robes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (coat), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 places	case
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 places	amod
3	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 places	amod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turns	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stoat	det
6	stoat	stoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stoat	case
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 called	parataxis
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turns	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 turns	advcl
15	only	only	ADV	_	19 tip	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tip	det
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tip	amod
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tip	compound
19	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeping	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 fur	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fur	amod
23	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	ermine	ermine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 used	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 used	aux:pass
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 used	advmod
30	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 called	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 robes	case
32	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 robes	nmod:poss
33	'	's	PART	_	32 kings	case
34	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 used	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a stoat's coat		cold northern places	winter	white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory
2	keep	gerund	a stoat's coat not said here	the black tail tip				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme
3	call speech: assert	present · passive		this white fur				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	use	past · passive			kings's robes		once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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