Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 4

Real donkeys are fairly quiet, but a bray can be heard about three kilometres away; the «hee» is breathed in and the «haw» breathed out.

Who acts: Real donkeys · What happens: be, hear, breathe in, breathe out · To what, where: bray, « hee, « haw

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 (Real 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 donkeys	amod
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quiet	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bray	det
9	bray	bray	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 heard	aux:pass
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quiet	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 three	advmod
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 kilometres	nummod
15	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 away	obl
16	away	away	ADV	_	12 heard	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 breathed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hee	det
19	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hee	compound
20	hee	hee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breathed	nsubj:pass
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 hee	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 breathed	aux:pass
23	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quiet	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 breathed	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 breathed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 haw	det
27	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 haw	compound
28	haw	haw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 breathed	nsubj:pass
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 haw	punct
30	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 breathed	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 breathed	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real donkeys		fairly, quiet property	tree rules
2	hear	can · passive		a bray	away property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	breathe in	present · passive		the « hee		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	breathe out	participle · passive		the « haw		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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