Migration and hibernation, sentence 12
Before hibernating, animals eat a lot to store fat, which keeps them alive through the winter.
Who acts: animals, fat · What happens: hibernate, eat, store, keep · To what, where: lot, fat, animals
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 (animals, fat), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 hibernating | mark |
| 2 | hibernating | hibernate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 eat | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hibernating | punct |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 store | mark |
| 9 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lot | acl |
| 10 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 store | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fat | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keeps | obj |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 winter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 winter | det |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alive | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hibernate | gerund | animals not said here | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | animals | a lot | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | store | to-infinitive | animals not said here | fat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | fat | animals = animal | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:12.
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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