Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 8

Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetles, rats, fruit and scraps, and the eerie screams on winter nights are often foxes calling.

Who acts: Red foxes, eerie screams · What happens: live, eat, call · To what, where: many British towns, worms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Red foxes, eerie screams), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 foxes	amod
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 towns	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 towns	amod
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 towns	amod
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cities	cc
9	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 towns	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worms	punct
11	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 live	advcl
12	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eating	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beetles	punct
14	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 worms	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rats	punct
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 worms	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fruit	punct
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beetles	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scraps	cc
20	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fruit	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 calling	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 calling	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 screams	det
24	eerie	eerie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 screams	amod
25	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 calling	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 nights	case
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nights	compound
28	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 screams	nmod
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 calling	aux
30	often	often	ADV	_	32 calling	advmod
31	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 calling	nsubj
32	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 live	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Red foxes		many British towns and cities		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	eat	gerund	Red foxes not said here	worms and beetles fruit and scraps and rats			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient
3	call	present · progressive	the eerie screams on winter nights			often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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