Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 1

First, it rubs oil from a gland near its tail all over its feathers with its beak, so water runs off like rain off a raincoat, which is where «like water off a duck's back» comes from, a saying for something, such as a telling-off, that has no effect on someone.

Who acts: duck, water, raincoat, «, telling off · What happens: rub, run off, be, like off, come, have · To what, where: oil, gland, raincoat, water, effect, someone

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, water, raincoat, «), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 rubs	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rubs	nsubj
4	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubs	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 gland	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gland	det
8	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubs	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gland	nmod
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 feathers	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 feathers	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feathers	nmod:poss
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubs	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 beak	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 beak	nmod:poss
18	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feathers	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 runs	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 runs	advmod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	nsubj
22	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rubs	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 runs	compound:prt
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 rain	case
25	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	obl
26	off	off	ADP	_	28 raincoat	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 raincoat	det
28	raincoat	raincoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 where	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 where	cop
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 raincoat	nmod
33	«	«	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 like	nsubj
34	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 where	advcl:relcl
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 like	obj
36	off	off	ADP	_	34 like	compound:prt
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 duck	det
38	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 back	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 duck	case
40	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 water	nmod
41	»	»	ADV	_	42 comes	advmod
42	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 like	ccomp
43	from	from	ADP	_	42 comes	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 saying	det
46	saying	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 comes	appos
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 something	case
48	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 saying	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 off	punct
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	55 off	case
51	as	as	ADP	_	50 such	fixed
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 off	det
53	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 off	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 telling	punct
55	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 something	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 has	punct
57	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 has	nsubj
58	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 off	acl:relcl
59	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	60 effect	det
60	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 has	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	62 someone	case
62	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	60 effect	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rubs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	present	duck	oil	a gland near duck's tail	over duck's feathers with duck's beak; first property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme over feather=Destination
2	run off	present	water		a raincoat	like rain	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off raincoat=Trajectory
3	is	present	a raincoat			where property	tree rules
4	like off in a quote	present	«	water a duck's back			tree rules
5	come	present	« not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	present	a telling off	no effect	someone		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

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.

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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 ×3. 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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