--- title: Badgers live in families in tunnel systems called setts, some used f… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: Badgers live in families in tunnel systems called setts, some used for over a hundred years, and a badger can eat a few hundred earthworms in one night. Who acts: Badgers, tunnel systems, setts, badger. 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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 (Badgers, tunnel systems, setts, badger), 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:9 # text = Badgers live in families in tunnel systems called setts, some used for over a hundred years, and a badger can eat a few hundred earthworms in one night. # 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 ×3 1 Badgers badger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 systems system NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 9 setts sett NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 earthworms earthworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Badgers | | | families in tunnel systems | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | tunnel systems *not said here* | setts | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | participle · passive | setts *not said here* | some | | | year | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | can | a badger | a few hundred earthworms | | | night | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthworm=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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