The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 17

Night animals sleep by day in burrows, tree holes and dark corners, guided by their body clock; animals most active at dawn and dusk, like rabbits and deer, are called crepuscular.

Who acts: Night animals · What happens: sleep, guide, call · To what, where: burrows, dark corners, rabbits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (Night animals), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 burrows	case
7	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holes	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holes	compound
10	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burrows	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 corners	cc
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 corners	amod
13	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burrows	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 guided	punct
15	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 corners	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 clock	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clock	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clock	compound
19	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guided	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 active	punct
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 active	nsubj
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 active	advmod
23	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 corners	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 dawn	case
25	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 active	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dusk	cc
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dawn	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
29	like	like	SCONJ	_	35 called	mark
30	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 called	nsubj:pass
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 deer	cc
32	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rabbits	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rabbits	punct
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 active	conj
36	crepuscular	crepuscular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 called	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Night animals		burrows and tree holes and dark corners	day		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location
2	guide	participle		dark corners not said here			by animals's body clock	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by clock=Destination
3	call	present · passive		rabbits and deer			crepuscular property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:17.

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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