Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 14

In a duck's legs, warm blood going down heats the cold blood coming back, so the feet stay just warm enough not to freeze on ice.

Who acts: warm blood, cold blood, feet · What happens: go down, heat, come back, stay, not freeze · To what, where: cold blood, ice

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 (warm blood, cold blood, feet), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 legs	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 duck	case
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 going	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 legs	punct
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blood	amod
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	nsubj
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	11 heats	advmod
11	heats	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blood	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blood	amod
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heats	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 blood	acl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 coming	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 stay	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feet	det
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stay	nsubj
21	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 going	conj
22	just	just	ADV	_	21 stay	advmod
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stay	xcomp
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 warm	advmod
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 freeze	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 freeze	mark
27	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 warm	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 ice	case
29	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 freeze	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	gerund	warm blood			in a duck's legs	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in leg=Attribute
2	heat	present	warm blood not said here	the cold blood		down property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
3	come back	gerund	the cold blood not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	present	the feet			warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not freeze	to-infinitive	the feet not said here		ice		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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:14.

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): no change. 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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