Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 31
Hedgehogs are small mammals with spines that eat insects, worms and slugs and hibernate in winter.
Who acts: Hedgehogs, spines · What happens: be, eat, hibernate · To what, where: small mammals, insects
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english 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 (Hedgehogs, spines), 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 | Hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mammals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mammals | cop |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mammals | amod |
| 4 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 spines | case |
| 6 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mammals | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spines | acl:relcl |
| 9 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worms | punct |
| 11 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 insects | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slugs | cc |
| 13 | slugs | slug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 insects | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hibernate | cc |
| 15 | hibernate | hibernate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 winter | case |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hibernate | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mammals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hedgehogs | small mammals | with spines | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | present | spines | insects and worms and slugs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hibernate | present | spines not said here | winter | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:31.
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): R8-pos-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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