Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 3
Daffy Duck shouts all day, but real ducks are mostly calm; oil from a gland near the tail keeps them waterproof, and a clever blood system stops their feet freezing on ice.
Who acts: Daffy Duck, real ducks, oil, clever blood system · What happens: shout, be, keep, stop, freeze · To what, where: jumps, feet, 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 (Daffy Duck, real ducks, oil, clever blood system), 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 | Daffy | Daffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duck | compound |
| 2 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | nsubj |
| 3 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 calm | parataxis |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calm | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 calm | cc |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ducks | amod |
| 9 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 calm | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 calm | cop |
| 11 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 12 calm | advmod |
| 12 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 oil | punct |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keeps | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 gland | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gland | det |
| 17 | gland | gland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oil | nmod |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 tail | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tail | det |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gland | nmod |
| 21 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 calm | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keeps | obj |
| 23 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keeps | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stops | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stops | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 system | det |
| 27 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 system | amod |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 system | compound |
| 29 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stops | nsubj |
| 30 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 calm | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stops | obj |
| 33 | freezing | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 stops | advcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 ice | case |
| 35 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 freezing | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Daffy Duck | day | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | real ducks | calm, mostly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | oil from a gland near the tail | jumps = jump | waterproof property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | stop | present | a clever blood system | jumps's feet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foot=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | freeze | gerund | a clever blood system 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:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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