--- title: In experiments, beavers piled sticks on a loudspeaker playing the so… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: In experiments, beavers piled sticks on a loudspeaker playing the sound of running water, so the sound of a leak makes them build: much of their building is instinct, not planning. Who acts: beavers, loudspeaker, sound, sticks. 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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, loudspeaker, sound, sticks), 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:7 # text = In experiments, beavers piled sticks on a loudspeaker playing the sound of running water, so the sound of a leak makes them build: much of their building is instinct, not planning. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 piled pile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 loudspeaker loudspeaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 running run NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 leak leak NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 27 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:_ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 planning planning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pile** | past | beavers | sticks | | experiments | | on a loudspeaker | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in experiment=Destination | | 2 | **play** | gerund | a loudspeaker *not said here* | the sound of running water | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | the sound of a leak | sticks *= stick* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **build** | infinitive | sticks *= stick* *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** | present | much of sticks's building | instinct and planning | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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, R8-pos-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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