Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 8
A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.
Who acts: rabbit, thud · What happens: thump, warn, travel · To what, where: back foot, other rabbits, ground
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 (rabbit, thud), 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 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | nsubj |
| 3 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | compound |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 warn | mark |
| 8 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thumps | advcl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rabbits | amod |
| 10 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 warn | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 danger | case |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rabbits | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 travels | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 travels | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thud | det |
| 16 | thud | thud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travels | nsubj |
| 17 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thumps | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travels | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 burrow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 burrow | det |
| 23 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travels | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | a rabbit | rabbit's back foot | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | a rabbit not said here | other rabbits of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | the thud | the ground | into the burrow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=Destination |
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:8.
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, 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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