--- title: In a city like Toronto, a family may wake up to find the green bin o… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics description: In a city like Toronto, a family may wake up to find the green bin open and rubbish all over the drive: a raccoon has lifted the lid with its clever little hands, which have five fingers and are so sensitive that it can feel food it cannot see. Who acts: family, raccoon, clever little hands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, raccoon, clever little hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:0 # text = In a city like Toronto, a family may wake up to find the green bin open and rubbish all over the drive: a raccoon has lifted the lid with its clever little hands, which have five fingers and are so sensitive that it can feel food it cannot see. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 rubbish rubbish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 raccoon raccoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 49 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 51 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 acl:relcl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake up** | may | a family | | | a city like Toronto | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | a family *not said here* | the green bin | | | | open *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Topic | | 3 | **rubbish** | present | a family *not said here* | | | the drive | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lift** | present · perfect | a raccoon | the lid | | | | with raccoon's clever little hands | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | raccoon's clever little hands | five fingers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | raccoon's clever little hands *not said here* | | | | | sensitive *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | can | family | food | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 8 | **not** **see** | can | family | food *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | 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:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and s…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/16/) - next →: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/)