Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 4

At the park, ducklings follow their mother in a line, ducks tip upside down to dabble for food, and bread is the worst thing to throw them, while oats, peas or sweetcorn are much better.

Who acts: ducklings, ducks, bread, oats · What happens: follow, tip down, dabble, be, throw · To what, where: mother, park, upside, worst thing, ducklings

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, ducks, bread, oats), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 park	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 park	det
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 follow	punct
5	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	nsubj
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 line	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 line	det
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tip	punct
13	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tip	nsubj
14	tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	conj
15	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tip	obj
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 tip	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dabble	mark
18	dabble	dabble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tip	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 food	case
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dabble	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thing	cc
23	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thing	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thing	det
26	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 throw	mark
29	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thing	acl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 throw	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 oats	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 better	mark
33	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 better	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 peas	punct
35	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 oats	conj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 sweetcorn	cc
37	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 oats	conj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 better	cop
39	much	much	ADV	_	40 better	advmod
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 thing	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 follow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	present	ducklings	ducklings's mother	the park	in a line	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mother=Theme at park=Trajectory
2	tip down	present	ducks	upside		down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme
3	dabble	to-infinitive	ducks not said here			for food	tree rules
4	is a	present	bread	the worst thing			tree rules
5	throw	to-infinitive	ducklings not said here	ducklings = duckling			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is	present	oats and peas or sweetcorn			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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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