--- title: A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics description: A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive. Who acts: raccoon, water. A sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/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/) / [Raccoons, opossums and skunks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/) / 6 # Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 6 A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive. **Who acts:** raccoon, water · **What happens:** dip, feel, not wash, make · **To what, where:** food, water, raccoon, paws This is a sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 (raccoon, water), 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:6 # text = A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 raccoon raccoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 dipping dip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dip** | gerund | a raccoon *not said here* | food | | water | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 2 | **feel** | present · progressive | a raccoon | food | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **not** **wash** | gerund | a raccoon *not said here* | raccoon | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | water | raccoon's paws | | | | sensitive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paw=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: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): 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: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/5/) - next →: [Raccoons, opossums and skunks, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/)