Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 15
Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting.
Who acts: Ducklings · What happens: follow, see, hatch, call · To what, where: first moving thing, mother, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ducklings), 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 | Ducklings | duckling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 thing | amod |
| 5 | moving | moving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | compound |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 follow | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 hatching | mark |
| 10 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mother | punct |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 mother | advmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hatching | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 follow | parataxis |
| 19 | imprinting | imprinting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Ducklings | the first moving thing | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | ducklings = duckling | the first moving thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hatch | gerund | ducklings = duckling not said here | ducklings's mother | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:15.
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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