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title: A European mole has velvety black fur that lies flat whichever way i… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A European mole has velvety black fur that lies flat whichever way it is brushed, so it can move forwards or backwards in its tunnels without getting its fur rubbed the wrong way. Who acts: European mole, velvety black fur, flat way, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank
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# The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 10

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A European mole has velvety black fur that lies flat whichever way it is brushed, so it can move forwards or backwards in its tunnels without getting its fur rubbed the wrong way.

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**Who acts:** European mole, velvety black fur, flat way, Mole · **What happens:** have, lie, brush, move forward, get, rub · **To what, where:** velvety black fur, flat way, Mole, tunnels, fur

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (European mole, velvety black fur, flat way, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:10
# text = A European mole has velvety black fur that lies flat whichever way it is brushed, so it can move forwards or backwards in its tunnels without getting its fur rubbed the wrong way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	whichever	whichever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	brushed	brush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
21	forwards	forward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	advcl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a European mole | velvety black fur |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | present | velvety black fur | whichever flat way |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **brush** | present · passive | whichever flat way *not said here* | Mole |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **move forward** | can | Mole |  |  | Mole's tunnels |  | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Trajectory |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **rub** | participle · passive |  | Mole's fur |  |  |  | the wrong way *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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