Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 2

The famous «stubbornness» is really caution: on a rocky desert path, running blindly could mean a fall, so a donkey stops and thinks where a horse would bolt.

Who acts: famous stubbornness, running, donkey, horse · What happens: be, run, mean, stop, think, bolt · To what, where: caution, fall, rocky desert path · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (famous stubbornness, running, donkey, horse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stubbornness	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stubbornness	amod
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 stubbornness	punct
4	stubbornness	stubbornness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caution	nsubj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 stubbornness	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 caution	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 caution	advmod
8	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 mean	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 path	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 path	det
12	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 path	amod
13	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 path	compound
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mean	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 path	punct
16	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mean	csubj
17	blindly	blindly	ADV	_	16 running	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 mean	aux
19	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 caution	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fall	det
21	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mean	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stops	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 stops	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 donkey	det
25	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stops	nsubj
26	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 mean	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thinks	cc
28	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stops	conj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 bolt	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bolt	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bolt	aux
33	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thinks	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caution	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the famous stubbornness	caution			tree rules
2	run	gerund				blindly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	could	running	a fall	a rocky desert path		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Topic
4	stop	present	a donkey				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	present	a donkey not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	bolt	would	a horse				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.

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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