Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 13
Donkeys love to roll in dust, which scratches itches, cleans the coat and keeps off flies.
Who acts: Donkeys · What happens: love, roll, scratch, clean, keep off · To what, where: dust, itches, coat, flies
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 (Donkeys), 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 | Donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 roll | mark |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 love | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dust | case |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roll | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scratches | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 scratches | nsubj |
| 9 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 roll | advcl |
| 10 | itches | itch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scratches | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cleans | punct |
| 12 | cleans | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scratches | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coat | det |
| 14 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cleans | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 keeps | cc |
| 16 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scratches | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 keeps | compound:prt |
| 18 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keeps | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Donkeys | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | roll not said to happen | to-infinitive | Donkeys not said here | dust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dust=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | scratch | present | itches | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itch=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clean | present | the coat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | |||||
| 5 | keep off | present | flies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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:13.
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): no change. 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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