Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 16
Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.
Who acts: Bread, rotting leftovers · What happens: fill, rot, dirty, be · To what, where: ducks, pond
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 (Bread, rotting leftovers), 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 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fills | nsubj |
| 2 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fills | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 goodness | case |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goodness | amod |
| 6 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fills | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dirty | cc |
| 8 | rotting | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 leftovers | amod |
| 9 | leftovers | leftover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dirty | nsubj |
| 10 | dirty | dirty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fills | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dirty | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 oats | punct |
| 14 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pond | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 peas | punct |
| 16 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oats | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweetcorn | punct |
| 18 | sweetcorn | sweetcorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oats | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 food | cc |
| 20 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 food | compound |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweetcorn | conj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 better | cop |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 fills | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fills | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | Bread | ducks | with little goodness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent duck=Patient with goodness=Instrument | |||
| 2 | rot | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | dirty | present | rotting leftovers | the pond and oats and peas and sweetcorn or duck food | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pond=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
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:16.
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, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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