How animals defend themselves, sentence 16

The Virginia opossum may fall over, go stiff, drool and smell bad when terrified; it is more like fainting than acting, and many predators lose interest.

Who acts: Virginia opossum, opossum, many predators · What happens: fall over, go, drool, smell, faint, act · To what, where: interest

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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 (Virginia opossum, opossum, many predators), 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 opossum	det
2	Virginia	Virginia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 opossum	compound
3	opossum	opossum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 fall	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fall	conj
9	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drool	punct
11	drool	drool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smell	cc
13	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smell	xcomp
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 terrified	mark
16	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smell	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fainting	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fainting	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fainting	aux
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 fainting	advmod
21	like	like	SCONJ	_	22 fainting	mark
22	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fall	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 acting	case
24	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fainting	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lose	cc
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 predators	amod
28	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lose	nsubj
29	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 acting	conj
30	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lose	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall over	may	the Virginia opossum		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	infinitive	the Virginia opossum not said here		stiff property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drool	infinitive	the Virginia opossum not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smell	infinitive	the Virginia opossum not said here		bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	faint	present · progressive	opossum			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	act	gerund	opossum not said here			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lose	present	many predators	interest		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality

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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.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 ×3. 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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