The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 3

The Badger is closer to life: real badgers dig huge old homes called setts and stay underground through cold spells.

Who acts: Badger, real badgers, huge old homes · What happens: be, dig, call, stay · To what, where: huge old homes, setts, cold spells · 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 (Badger, real badgers, huge old homes), 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	2 Badger	det
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 dig	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 badgers	amod
9	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dig	nsubj
10	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	parataxis
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 homes	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 homes	amod
13	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dig	obj
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 homes	acl
15	setts	sett	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 called	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stay	cc
17	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dig	conj
18	underground	underground	ADV	_	17 stay	advmod
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 spells	case
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spells	amod
21	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stay	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 closer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Badger			to life; close property	tree rules
2	dig	present	real badgers	huge old homes			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	call	participle	huge old homes not said here	setts			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	present	real badgers not said here		cold spells	underground property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through spell=Location

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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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