The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 16

The harvest mouse is Britain's smallest rodent, about as heavy as a 20p coin, and it weaves a ball-shaped nest among tall grass or wheat stalks, holding on with its gripping tail; harvesting machines can destroy those nests, just as the book's field-mice feared.

Who acts: harvest mouse, coin, harvesting machines, field mice · What happens: be, weave, shape, hold on, grip, harvest · To what, where: smallest rodent, shaped nest, nests

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 (harvest mouse, coin, harvesting machines, field mice), 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	3 mouse	det
2	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	compound
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rodent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rodent	cop
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rodent	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Britain	case
7	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 rodent	amod
8	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heavy	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 heavy	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 heavy	advmod
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rodent	amod
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 coin	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 coin	det
15	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 p	nummod
16	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coin	compound
17	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heavy	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weaves	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weaves	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 weaves	nsubj
21	weaves	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rodent	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nest	det
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shaped	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ball	punct
25	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 nest	amod
26	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weaves	obj
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 grass	case
28	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grass	amod
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nest	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 stalks	cc
31	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stalks	compound
32	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grass	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 holding	punct
34	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 weaves	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 holding	compound:prt
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 tail	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tail	nmod:poss
38	gripping	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 tail	amod
39	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 holding	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 harvesting	punct
41	harvesting	harvest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 machines	compound
42	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 destroy	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 destroy	aux
44	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rodent	parataxis
45	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 nests	det
46	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 destroy	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 mice	punct
48	just	just	ADV	_	56 feared	advmod
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 feared	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 book	det
51	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 mice	nmod:poss
52	's	's	PART	_	51 book	case
53	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 mice	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 field	punct
55	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 feared	nsubj
56	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 destroy	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rodent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the harvest mouse	Britain's smallest rodent		tree rules
2	weave	present	coin	a shaped nest	among tall grass or wheat stalks	vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material nest=Product
3	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	hold on	gerund	coin not said here		with coin's gripping tail	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grip	gerund				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	harvest	gerund				tree rules
7	destroy	can	harvesting machines	that nests		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
8	fear	past	the book's field mice			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:16.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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