Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 3
Cartoons show raccoons as masked burglars washing their loot, hedgehogs carrying apples on their spines and skunks spraying for fun; the real animals are stranger and smarter, and a skunk always warns you first.
Who acts: Cartoons, masked burglars, hedgehogs, skunks, real animals, skunk · What happens: show, mask, wash, carry, spray, be · To what, where: raccoons, loot, apples, spines, you
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 (Cartoons, masked burglars, hedgehogs, skunks), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | raccoons | raccoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 burglars | case |
| 5 | masked | mask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 burglars | amod |
| 6 | burglars | burglar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obl |
| 7 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 burglars | acl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 loot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | loot | loot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hedgehogs | punct |
| 11 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burglars | conj |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hedgehogs | acl |
| 13 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carrying | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 spines | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 spines | nmod:poss |
| 16 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carrying | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 skunks | cc |
| 18 | skunks | skunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spines | conj |
| 19 | spraying | spray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 skunks | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 fun | case |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spraying | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 stranger | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 animals | det |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 animals | amod |
| 25 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stranger | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 stranger | cop |
| 27 | stranger | stranger | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 show | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smarter | cc |
| 29 | smarter | smart | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 stranger | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 warns | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 warns | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 skunk | det |
| 33 | skunk | skunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 warns | nsubj |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 warns | advmod |
| 35 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 warns | obj |
| 37 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 warns | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Cartoons | raccoons | as masked burglars and hedgehogs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent raccoon=Recipient | |||
| 2 | mask | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wash | gerund | masked burglars and hedgehogs not said here | raccoons's loot | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | hedgehogs not said here | apples | raccoons's spines and skunks | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | |||
| 5 | spray | gerund | skunks not said here | for fun | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the real animals | stranger property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the real animals not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | warn speech: warn | present | a skunk | you | always, first property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 9 | loot | raccoons = raccoon | nom loot «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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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