Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 0

A duck can paddle about all day in a winter pond and come out with dry feathers and warm insides, and that is two clever tricks at once.

Who acts: duck, that · What happens: paddle, come out, be · To what, where: winter pond, two clever tricks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ducks, geese and farm myths» 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 (duck, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paddle	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 paddle	aux
4	paddle	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paddle	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 pond	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pond	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pond	compound
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paddle	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paddle	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 feathers	case
16	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feathers	amod
17	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 insides	cc
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 insides	amod
20	insides	inside	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feathers	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tricks	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tricks	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 tricks	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tricks	cop
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 tricks	nummod
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tricks	amod
27	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paddle	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 tricks	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paddle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paddle	can	a duck		a winter pond	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come out	infinitive	a duck not said here				with dry feathers and warm insides; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	that	two clever tricks				tree rules

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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:0.

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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