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title: Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where the… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys. Who acts: Raccoons, scientists. 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 ever
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# Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 8

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Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys.

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**Who acts:** Raccoons, scientists · **What happens:** be, raid, nest · **To what, where:** North American cities, bins, attics

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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 (Raccoons, scientists), 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:8
# text = Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys.
# 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): no change
1	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	raid	raid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	attics	attic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Raccoons |  |  | North American cities like Toronto |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raid** | present | scientists *= scientist* | bins |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bin=Location |
| 3 | **nest** | present | scientists *= scientist* *not said here* |  |  | attics and chimneys |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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