Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 11
Rabbits eat their soft droppings to digest their food a second time and get out vitamins missed the first time; their teeth never stop growing, and chewing tough grass all day wears them down.
Who acts: Rabbits, vitamins, teeth, chewing · What happens: eat, digest, get out, miss, not stop, grow · To what, where: soft droppings, food, vitamins, tough grass, jumps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbits, vitamins, teeth, chewing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 droppings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 droppings | amod |
| 5 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 digest | mark |
| 7 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 eat | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 food | nmod:poss |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 digest | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 digest | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 digest | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 get | compound:prt |
| 16 | vitamins | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vitamins | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 missed | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 stop | advmod |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eat | parataxis |
| 26 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stop | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wears | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wears | cc |
| 29 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 wears | csubj |
| 30 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grass | amod |
| 31 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chewing | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chewing | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stop | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wears | obj |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 wears | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Rabbits | jumps's soft droppings | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Patient | ||||
| 2 | digest | to-infinitive | Rabbits not said here | jumps's food | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get out | infinitive | Rabbits not said here | vitamins | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | vitamins not said here | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not stop | present | jumps's teeth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | grow | gerund | jumps's teeth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | chew | gerund | tough grass | day | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | ||||
| 8 | wear down | present | chewing | jumps = jump | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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, 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:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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