Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 0

In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is scared, begs for waffles and carries Shrek and Fiona on his back.

Who acts: Donkey · What happens: not stop, talk, dig in, be, beg, carry · To what, where: Shrek, hooves, back

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 (Donkey), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Shrek	case
2	Shrek	Shrek	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stops	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stops	punct
4	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stops	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stops	advmod
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stops	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 digs	punct
9	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stops	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hooves	nmod:poss
11	hooves	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 digs	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 digs	compound:prt
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 scared	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scared	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 scared	cop
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 digs	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begs	punct
18	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 digs	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 waffles	case
20	waffles	waffle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 begs	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carries	cc
22	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 begs	conj
23	Shrek	Shrek	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 carries	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Fiona	cc
25	Fiona	Fiona	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Shrek	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 back	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 back	nmod:poss
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carries	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	Donkey		Shrek		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	Donkey not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dig in	present	Donkey not said here	Donkey's hooves			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hoof=Theme
4	is	present	Donkey			scared property	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	present	Donkey not said here			for waffles	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for waffle=Topic
6	carry	present	Donkey not said here	Shrek and Fiona	Donkey's back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrek=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:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:0.

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, R2-punct-next ×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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