--- title: Beavers build dams of sticks, stones and mud to make a deep pond, an… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: Beavers build dams of sticks, stones and mud to make a deep pond, and the biggest known beaver dam, in Canada, is about 850 metres long and shows up in satellite pictures. Who acts: Beavers, biggest known beaver dam. 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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, biggest known beaver dam), 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:5 # text = Beavers build dams of sticks, stones and mud to make a deep pond, and the biggest known beaver dam, in Canada, is about 850 metres long and shows up in satellite pictures. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dams dam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 19 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 20 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 dam dam NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 850 850 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 satellite satellite NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **build** | present | Beavers | dams of sticks and stones and mud | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Beavers *not said here* | a deep pond | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | | 3 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | the biggest known beaver dam in Canada | 850 metres | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **show up** | present | the biggest known beaver dam in Canada *not said here* | | | satellite pictures | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in picture=Location | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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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