--- title: Beavers cannot control well which way a tree falls, and falling tree… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: Beavers cannot control well which way a tree falls, and falling trees sometimes kill them; trees near water often lean towards the water anyway. Who acts: Beavers, tree, falling trees, trees. 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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 (Beavers, tree, falling trees, trees), 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:14 # text = Beavers cannot control well which way a tree falls, and falling trees sometimes kill them; trees near water often lean towards the water anyway. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 amod _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 16 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **control** | can | Beavers | which way | | | | well *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | present | a tree | which way *not said here* | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | present | falling trees | hundreds *= hundred* | | | | sometimes *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **lean** | present | trees near water | | | | | towards the water; anyway, often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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): R2-punct-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. 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