The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world, sentence 11

Snowy owls often hunt in daylight on the tundra; one may eat more than 1,500 lemmings in a year, and they lay more eggs when lemmings are plentiful.

Who acts: Snowy owls, one, owls, lemmings · What happens: hunt, eat, lay, be · To what, where: daylight, 1,500 lemmings, more eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 (Snowy owls, one, owls, lemmings), 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	Snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 hunt	advmod
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 daylight	case
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tundra	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tundra	det
9	tundra	tundra	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	parataxis
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 1,500	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	14 more	fixed
16	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 lemmings	nummod
17	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 year	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	conj
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 eggs	amod
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lay	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 plentiful	advmod
28	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plentiful	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 plentiful	cop
30	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Snowy owls		daylight		on the tundra; often property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in daylight=Location
2	eat	may	one	1,500 lemmings		year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemming=Patient
3	lay	present	owls = owl	more eggs				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
4	is	present	lemmings				plentiful property	tree rules

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:006-the-arctic.lesson:11.

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): 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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