The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 18
Rabbits live in burrows called a warren and warn each other of danger by thumping the ground with their back feet and flashing their white tails as they run.
Who acts: Rabbits, burrows · What happens: live, call, warn, thump, flash, run · To what, where: burrows, warren, each, ground, white tails · 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 (Rabbits, burrows), 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 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 burrows | case |
| 4 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 burrows | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 warren | det |
| 7 | warren | warren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 warn | cc |
| 9 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 9 warn | obj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 danger | case |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warn | obl |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 thumping | mark |
| 15 | thumping | thump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 warn | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thumping | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feet | compound |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thumping | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flashing | cc |
| 23 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 thumping | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tails | nmod:poss |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tails | amod |
| 26 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flashing | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 run | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 run | nsubj |
| 29 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 flashing | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Rabbits | burrows | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | burrows not said here | a warren | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warren=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | Rabbits not said here | each | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent each=Recipient of danger=Topic | |||
| 4 | thump | gerund | Rabbits not said here | the ground | with rabbits's back feet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 5 | flash | gerund | Rabbits not said here | rabbits's white tails | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | present | rabbits = rabbit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.
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, R8-pos-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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