Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 17

A duck that tips upside down with its tail up is dabbling, reaching for plants and small animals just below the surface; diving ducks go right under.

Who acts: duck, diving ducks · What happens: tip, dabble, reach, dive, go · To what, where: upside

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 (duck, diving ducks), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dabbling	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tips	nsubj
4	tips	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 duck	acl:relcl
5	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tips	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 upside	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 up	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	compound
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tips	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dabbling	aux
12	dabbling	dabble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reaching	punct
14	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dabbling	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 plants	case
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reaching	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 animals	cc
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animals	amod
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 plants	conj
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 surface	advmod
21	below	below	ADP	_	23 surface	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 surface	det
23	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plants	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 dabbling	punct
25	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ducks	amod
26	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 go	nsubj
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dabbling	parataxis
28	right	right	ADV	_	29 under	advmod
29	under	under	ADP	_	27 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dabbling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tip	present	a duck	upside	with tail up	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme
2	dabble	present · progressive	a duck			tree rules
3	reach	gerund	a duck not said here		for plants below the surface and small animals	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dive	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	go	present	diving ducks			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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