--- title: Raccoons often dunk food in water even when it is clean, because wet… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: Raccoons often dunk food in water even when it is clean, because wet, sensitive front paws seem to feel things better; they are not really washing it. Who acts: Raccoons, food, wet sensitive front paws. 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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 (Raccoons, food, wet sensitive front paws), 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:6 # text = Raccoons often dunk food in water even when it is clean, because wet, sensitive front paws seem to feel things better; they are not really washing it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Raccoons raccoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 dunk dunk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dunk** | present | Raccoons | food | | water | | often *property* | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | present | food | | | | | clean *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | present | wet sensitive front paws | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | wet sensitive front paws *not said here* | things | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **not** **wash** | present · progressive | raccoons *= raccoon* | food | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. 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