--- title: The Rat in the book is a water vole: it has a round blunt nose, smal… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat in the book is a water vole: it has a round blunt nose, small ears almost hidden in its fur and a short furry tail, while a brown rat has a pointed nose, big ears and a long scaly tail. Who acts: Rat, part, brown rat. 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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 (Rat, part, brown rat), 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:7 # text = The Rat in the book is a water vole: it has a round blunt nose, small ears almost hidden in its fur and a short furry tail, while a brown rat has a pointed nose, big ears and a long scaly tail. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 vole vole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 pointed pointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | the Rat in the book | a water vole | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | part | a round blunt nose and small ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 3 | **hide** | participle | | small ears *not said here* | | part's fur and a short furry tail | | almost *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fur=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | a brown rat | a pointed nose and big ears and a long scaly tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | 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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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, 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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