--- title: A beaver family is the parents, this year's kits and last year's you… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: A beaver family is the parents, this year's kits and last year's young, who help to build; young beavers leave at about two years old to make their own pond. Who acts: beaver family, young, young beavers. 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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 (beaver family, young, young beavers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:10 # text = A beaver family is the parents, this year's kits and last year's young, who help to build; young beavers leave at about two years old to make their own pond. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 kits kit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a beaver family | the parents and this year's kits and last year's young | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | last year's young | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | last year's young *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **leave** | present | young beavers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | young beavers *not said here* | young's own pond | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-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: [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/8/) - next →: [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/)