Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 13

Grey squirrels brought from North America in the 1800s took over much of the red squirrel's range in Britain; they carry squirrelpox, which kills many reds, and reds survive best in places like Scotland.

Who acts: Grey squirrels, squirrels, squirrelpox, reds · What happens: bring, take over, carry, kill, survive · To what, where: Grey squirrels, North America, range, Britain, squirrelpox, many reds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (Grey squirrels, squirrels, squirrelpox, reds), 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	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 squirrels	amod
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 squirrels	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1800s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1800s	det
9	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 brought	obl
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	18 range	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 range	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 squirrel	det
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 squirrel	amod
16	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 range	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 squirrel	case
18	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Britain	case
20	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 range	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 carry	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	nsubj
23	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
24	squirrelpox	squirrelpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carry	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kills	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 kills	nsubj
27	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 squirrelpox	acl:relcl
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reds	amod
29	reds	red	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kills	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 survive	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 survive	cc
32	reds	red	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 survive	nsubj
33	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 carry	conj
34	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 survive	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 places	case
36	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 survive	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 Scotland	case
38	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 places	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	participle		Grey squirrels not said here	North America	in the 1800s	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from america=Initial_Location
2	take over	past	Grey squirrels	the red squirrel's range	Britain		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Theme
3	carry	present	squirrels = squirrel	squirrelpox			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrelpox=Theme
4	kill	present	squirrelpox	many reds			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme
5	survive	present	reds		places like Scotland	well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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