The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 13

A weasel is so small and thin that it can follow a mouse or vole right down its hole; a stoat is strong enough to catch a rabbit much bigger than itself.

Who acts: weasel, fur, stoat · What happens: be, follow, catch · To what, where: mouse, rabbit

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 (weasel, fur, stoat), 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 weasel	det
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thin	cc
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 follow	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 follow	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 follow	aux
11	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thin	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouse	det
13	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 follow	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 vole	cc
15	vole	vole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mouse	conj
16	right	right	ADV	_	17 down	advmod
17	down	down	ADV	_	11 follow	advmod
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hole	nmod:poss
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 follow	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 strong	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stoat	det
22	stoat	stoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strong	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 strong	cop
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	parataxis
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 strong	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 catch	mark
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 strong	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rabbit	det
29	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 catch	obj
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 bigger	advmod
31	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 rabbit	amod
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 itself	case
33	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 bigger	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a weasel		small property	tree rules
2	be		a weasel not said here			tree rules
3	follow	can	fur	a mouse or vole	fur's hole obl; down property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	is	present	a stoat		enough, strong property	tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive	a stoat not said here	a rabbit		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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:13.

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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