--- title: Urban foxes live in towns because there is food, shelter and few ene… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics description: Urban foxes live in towns because there is food, shelter and few enemies, but they are wild animals and should not be fed by hand or petted. Who acts: Urban foxes, food, Foxes, hand. A sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Foxes and squirrels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/) / 6 # Foxes and squirrels, sentence 6 Urban foxes live in towns because there is food, shelter and few enemies, but they are wild animals and should not be fed by hand or petted. **Who acts:** Urban foxes, food, Foxes, hand · **What happens:** live, be, not feed, pet · **To what, where:** towns, wild animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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 (Urban foxes, food, Foxes, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:6 # text = Urban foxes live in towns because there is food, shelter and few enemies, but they are wild animals and should not be fed by hand or petted. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 petted pet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Urban foxes | | | towns | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | | 2 | **does** | present | food and shelter and few enemies | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Foxes *= fox* | wild animals | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **feed** | should · passive | hand | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pet** | participle | hand *not said here* | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Foxes and squirrels, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/5/) - next →: [Foxes and squirrels, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/)