Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 9

Badgers live in families in tunnel systems called setts, some used for over a hundred years, and a badger can eat a few hundred earthworms in one night.

Who acts: Badgers, tunnel systems, setts, badger · What happens: live, call, use, eat · To what, where: families, setts, some, few hundred earthworms · 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 (Badgers, tunnel systems, setts, badger), 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	Badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 families	case
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 systems	case
6	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 systems	compound
7	systems	system	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 families	nmod
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 systems	acl
9	setts	sett	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 used	nsubj:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 setts	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 badger	det
21	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 live	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 earthworms	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 earthworms	amod
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 earthworms	nummod
27	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 night	nummod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	present	Badgers		families in tunnel systems		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location
2	call	participle	tunnel systems not said here	setts			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	participle · passive	setts not said here	some		year	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	eat	can	a badger	a few hundred earthworms		night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthworm=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:9.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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