Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 3
Picture a donkey sanctuary in a rainy country: donkeys crowded in a shed because their desert coats are not waterproof, two best friends grooming each other, and one rolling happily in its favourite dusty patch.
Who acts: you, desert coats, two best friends · What happens: picture, crowd, not be, groom, roll · To what, where: donkey sanctuary, rainy country, donkeys, shed, each, favourite dusty patch
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 (you, desert coats, two best friends), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sanctuary | det |
| 3 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sanctuary | compound |
| 4 | sanctuary | sanctuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 7 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 country | amod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 donkeys | punct |
| 10 | donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 country | appos |
| 11 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 donkeys | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shed | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shed | det |
| 14 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crowded | obl |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 waterproof | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coats | compound |
| 18 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 waterproof | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 waterproof | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 waterproof | advmod |
| 21 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crowded | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 friends | punct |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 friends | nummod |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 friends | amod |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Picture | obl |
| 26 | grooming | groom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 friends | acl |
| 27 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 26 grooming | obj |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 each | fixed |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 patch | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 one | cc |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 friends | conj |
| 32 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 one | acl |
| 33 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 32 rolling | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 patch | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 patch | nmod:poss |
| 36 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 patch | amod |
| 37 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 patch | amod |
| 38 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rolling | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a donkey sanctuary | a rainy country | two best friends obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sanctuary=Theme | ||
| 2 | crowd | participle | donkeys not said here | a shed | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | waffles's desert coats | waterproof property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | groom | gerund | two best friends not said here | each | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | ||||
| 5 | roll | gerund | shed's favourite dusty patch | happily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in patch=Trajectory |
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:3.
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, 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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