--- title: A beaver slaps its flat scaly tail on the water to warn the family o… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: A beaver slaps its flat scaly tail on the water to warn the family of danger; the tail also steers, stores fat and props the beaver up while it chews a tree. Who acts: beaver, tail. 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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, tail), 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:11 # text = A beaver slaps its flat scaly tail on the water to warn the family of danger; the tail also steers, stores fat and props the beaver up while it chews a tree. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slaps slap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 steers steer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 props prop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 chews chew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slap** | present | a beaver | beaver's flat scaly tail | | | | on the water | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tail=Instrument on water=Patient | | 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | a beaver *not said here* | the family of danger | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | | 3 | **steer** | present | the tail | | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **store** | present | the tail *not said here* | fat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 5 | **prop up** | present | the tail *not said here* | | the beaver | | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent beaver=Destination | | 6 | **chew** | present | beaver | a tree | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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