The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 9
Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.
Who acts: Badgers, setts · What happens: be, drag, dig · To what, where: fresh grass, special toilet pits
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 (Badgers, setts), 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 | Badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clean | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clean | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 clean | advmod |
| 4 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 drag | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drag | nsubj |
| 7 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clean | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grass | amod |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drag | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bracken | cc |
| 12 | bracken | bracken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grass | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 bedding | case |
| 14 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grass | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dig | cc |
| 16 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drag | conj |
| 17 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pits | amod |
| 18 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pits | compound |
| 19 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dig | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 dig | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sett | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sett | det |
| 23 | sett | sett | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Badgers | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drag | present | setts = sett | fresh grass for bedding and bracken | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | dig | present | setts = sett not said here | special toilet pits | away property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=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:9.
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. 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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