The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 7

Real badgers live in family groups of about five or six in a sett, a set of tunnels and chambers that can be used by badgers for a hundred years or more.

Who acts: Real badgers, badgers · What happens: live, use · To what, where: family groups, set

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 (Real badgers, badgers), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 badgers	amod
2	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 groups	case
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groups	compound
6	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 five	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 five	advmod
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 groups	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 six	cc
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 five	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sett	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sett	det
14	sett	sett	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 set	det
17	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sett	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 tunnels	case
19	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chambers	cc
21	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tunnels	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 used	nsubj:pass
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 used	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	aux:pass
25	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 set	acl:relcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 badgers	case
27	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 used	obl:agent
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 years	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 years	det
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 used	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 more	cc
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 years	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Real badgers			family groups of five		in a sett and a set of tunnels and chambers	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
2	use	can · passive	badgers	a set of tunnels and chambers			year		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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:7.

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): no change. 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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