Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 3

Ducks and geese, like many farm animals, are also wrapped in myths, from quacks that never echo to ostriches hiding their heads, and a bit of science puts them right.

Who acts: quacks, ostriches, bit · What happens: wrap, not echo, hide, put · To what, where: Ducks, myths, heads

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 (quacks, ostriches, bit), 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	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrapped	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 geese	cc
3	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ducks	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 animals	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 animals	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ducks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ducks	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wrapped	aux:pass
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 wrapped	advmod
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 myths	case
14	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrapped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 echo	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 quacks	case
17	quacks	quack	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 myths	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 echo	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 echo	advmod
20	echo	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 quacks	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 ostriches	case
22	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 echo	obl
23	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 ostriches	acl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heads	nmod:poss
25	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hiding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 puts	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 puts	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bit	det
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 puts	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 science	case
31	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bit	nmod
32	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wrapped	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 puts	obj
34	right	right	ADV	_	32 puts	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wrapped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrap	present · passive		Ducks like many farm animals and geese	myths from quacks		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in myth=Destination
2	not echo	present	quacks			to ostriches	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	gerund	ostriches not said here	ostriches's heads			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	put	present	a bit of science	heads = head			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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