Migration and hibernation, sentence 0

Winter is hard for animals: it is cold, days are short, and food like insects, fruit and fresh leaves becomes scarce, though seeds and nuts can still be found.

Who acts: Winter, it, days, food · What happens: be, become, find · To what, where: seeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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 (Winter, it, days, food), 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	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hard	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hard	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 cold	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cold	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hard	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 short	punct
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 short	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 short	cop
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hard	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 becomes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 becomes	cc
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 becomes	nsubj
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 insects	case
18	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 food	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fruit	punct
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leaves	cc
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leaves	amod
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 food	conj
24	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	conj
25	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 becomes	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 found	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 found	mark
28	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 found	nsubj:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nuts	cc
30	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seeds	conj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 found	aux
32	still	still	ADV	_	34 found	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 found	aux:pass
34	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 becomes	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Winter			for animals; hard property	tree rules
2	is	present	it			cold property	tree rules
3	is	present	days			short property	tree rules
4	become	present	food like insects and fruit and fresh leaves			scarce property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	find	can · passive		seeds and nuts	still		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:0.

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 ×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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