--- title: A raccoon seems to wash its food in a stream, but really it is feeli… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics description: A raccoon seems to wash its food in a stream, but really it is feeling it, because water makes its paws even more sensitive; its black mask may help it see at night by cutting glare. Who acts: raccoon, it, water, black mask. 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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 (raccoon, it, water, black mask), 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:1 # text = A raccoon seems to wash its food in a stream, but really it is feeling it, because water makes its paws even more sensitive; its black mask may help it see at night by cutting glare. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 raccoon raccoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 really really ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mask mask NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 by by SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 34 advcl _ _ 39 glare glare NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | a raccoon | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **wash** | to-infinitive | a raccoon *not said here* | raccoon's food | | a stream | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 3 | **feel** | present · progressive | it | raccoon | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | water | raccoon's paws | | | | sensitive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paw=Product | | 5 | **help** | may | raccoon's black mask | raccoon | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | raccoon *not said here* | | | | night | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **cut** | gerund | raccoon *not said here* | glare | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glare=Product | 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:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/0/) - next →: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/)