Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 6
Donkeys' very long ears catch far-off calls and give off heat in hot deserts, and each ear can turn on its own.
Who acts: long ears, ear · What happens: catch, give off, turn · To what, where: far calls, heat, hot deserts, own
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 (long ears, ear), 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 | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Donkeys | case |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 calls | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 off | punct |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 far | compound |
| 10 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 catch | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 deserts | case |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deserts | amod |
| 17 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 turn | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ear | det |
| 21 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turn | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 turn | aux |
| 23 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 catch | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 own | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 own | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 turn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Donkeys's long ears | far calls | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give off | present | Donkeys's long ears not said here | heat | hot deserts | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | can | each ear | heat's own | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=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:6.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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