Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 7
Beaver front teeth are orange because the enamel contains iron, which makes it extra strong, they never stop growing, and beavers build dams so the entrance to their lodge stays under water and safe from predators on land.
Who acts: Beaver front teeth, enamel, iron, teeth, beavers, entrance · What happens: be, contain, make, not stop, grow, build · To what, where: iron, dams, water
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 (Beaver front teeth, enamel, iron, teeth), 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 | Beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teeth | compound |
| 2 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teeth | amod |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 orange | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | cop |
| 5 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 contains | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enamel | det |
| 8 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | advcl |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 iron | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | extra | extra | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stop | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stop | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 stop | advmod |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | parataxis |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stop | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 build | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 build | cc |
| 24 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 build | nsubj |
| 25 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | conj |
| 26 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 build | obj |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 33 stays | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 entrance | det |
| 29 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stays | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 lodge | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 entrance | nmod |
| 33 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 build | advcl |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stays | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 safe | cc |
| 37 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 water | conj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 predators | case |
| 39 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 safe | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 land | case |
| 41 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 predators | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 orange | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Beaver front teeth | orange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | the enamel | iron | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | iron | iron | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | not stop | present | teeth = tooth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | teeth = tooth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | build | present | beavers | dams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | ||||
| 7 | stay | present | the entrance to beavers's lodge | water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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