--- title: Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in huge underground towns w… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms; in about 1900 one town in Texas was reported to hold hundreds of millions of them. Who acts: Prairie dogs, ground squirrels. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/) / 10 # Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 10 Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms; in about 1900 one town in Texas was reported to hold hundreds of millions of them. **Who acts:** Prairie dogs, ground squirrels · **What happens:** be, live, report, hold · **To what, where:** ground squirrels, huge underground towns, one town, 1900, hundreds This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prairie dogs, ground squirrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:10 # text = Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms; in about 1900 one town in Texas was reported to hold hundreds of millions of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 entrances entrance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Prairie dogs | ground squirrels | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | ground squirrels *not said here* | | | huge underground towns with many entrances and rooms | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | | 3 | **report** | past · passive | | one town in Texas | | 1900 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | | hundreds of millions of squirrels | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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, 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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