Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 6

Raccoons often dunk food in water even when it is clean, because wet, sensitive front paws seem to feel things better; they are not really washing it.

Who acts: Raccoons, food, wet sensitive front paws · What happens: dunk, be, seem, feel, not wash · To what, where: food, water, things

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 (Raccoons, food, wet sensitive front paws), 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	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dunk	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 dunk	advmod
3	dunk	dunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dunk	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dunk	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 clean	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 clean	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 clean	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	cop
11	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dunk	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 seem	mark
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paws	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wet	punct
16	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paws	amod
17	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paws	amod
18	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seem	nsubj
19	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dunk	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 feel	mark
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seem	xcomp
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feel	obj
23	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 feel	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 washing	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 washing	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 washing	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 washing	advmod
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 washing	advmod
29	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dunk	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 washing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dunk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dunk	present	Raccoons	food	water	often property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	is	present	food			clean property	tree rules
3	seem	present	wet sensitive front paws				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	feel	to-infinitive	wet sensitive front paws not said here	things			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	not wash	present · progressive	raccoons = raccoon	food			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:6.

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 ×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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