--- title: Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetl… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetles, rats, fruit and scraps, and the eerie screams on winter nights are often foxes calling. Who acts: Red foxes, eerie screams. 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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 (Red foxes, eerie screams), 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:8 # text = Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetles, rats, fruit and scraps, and the eerie screams on winter nights are often foxes calling. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 12 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 eerie eerie ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 screams scream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 33 . . 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 | **live** | present | Red foxes | | | many British towns and cities | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | Red foxes *not said here* | worms and beetles fruit and scraps and rats | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient | | 3 | **call** | present · progressive | the eerie screams on winter nights | | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Animals of North America and Britain:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/7/) - next →: [Animals of North America and Britain:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/)