--- title: Many of these animals live right next to us: foxes trot down city st… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: Many of these animals live right next to us: foxes trot down city streets at night, raccoons open bins, and robins follow gardeners for worms, just as their ancestors followed wild boar. Who acts: Many, foxes, raccoons, robins. 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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 (Many, foxes, raccoons, robins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:2 # text = Many of these animals live right next to us: foxes trot down city streets at night, raccoons open bins, and robins follow gardeners for worms, just as their ancestors followed wild boar. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 next next ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 trot trot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 raccoons raccoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 35 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **live** | present | Many of this animals | | | | | next *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **trot down** | present | foxes | city streets | | | night | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **open** | present | raccoons | bins | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bin=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | robins | gardeners | | | | for worms | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme for worm=Attribute | | 5 | **follow** | past | raccoons's ancestors | wild boar | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=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. 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