Migration and hibernation, sentence 14
Bears sleep for months in winter, but their body cools only a little, so many scientists call it a lighter winter sleep.
Who acts: Bears, body, many scientists · What happens: sleep, cool, call · To what, where: little, body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bears, body, many scientists), 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 | Bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 months | case |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleep | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cools | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 cools | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cools | nsubj |
| 11 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sleep | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 little | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cools | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 call | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scientists | amod |
| 18 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nsubj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cools | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 call | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sleep | det |
| 22 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 sleep | amod |
| 23 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sleep | compound |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | Bears | month; winter | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cool | present | Bears's body | a little | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | present | many scientists | body | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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:world:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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