--- title: A stoat and a weasel look alike, but a stoat is bigger and always ha… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A stoat and a weasel look alike, but a stoat is bigger and always has a black tip on its tail, while a weasel is smaller, with a short tail and no black tip. Who acts: stoat, weasel. 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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 (stoat, weasel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:11 # text = A stoat and a weasel look alike, but a stoat is bigger and always has a black tip on its tail, while a weasel is smaller, with a short tail and no black tip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 7 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 always always ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 36 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **look** | infinitive | a stoat and a weasel | | | | | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | a stoat | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a stoat *not said here* | a black tip | | Badger's tail | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | a weasel | | | | | with a short tail and no black tip; small *property* | 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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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