Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 6

White bread is bad for ducks: it fills them up without the goodness they need, and soggy leftover bread pollutes ponds; peas, sweetcorn, oats and duck food are better.

Who acts: White bread, duck, feet, soggy leftover bread · What happens: be, fill up, need, pollute · To what, where: feet, goodness, ponds

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 (White bread, duck, feet, soggy leftover bread), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ducks	case
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fills	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fills	nsubj
9	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fills	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 fills	compound:prt
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 goodness	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goodness	det
14	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fills	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
16	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 goodness	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pollutes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pollutes	cc
19	soggy	soggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bread	amod
20	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bread	compound
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pollutes	nsubj
22	pollutes	pollute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	conj
23	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pollutes	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 peas	punct
25	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ponds	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sweetcorn	punct
27	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peas	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 oats	punct
29	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ponds	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 food	cc
31	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 food	compound
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ponds	conj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 better	cop
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 ponds	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	White bread		for ducks; bad property	tree rules
2	fill up	present	duck	feet = foot	without the goodness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	need	present	feet = foot	the goodness not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot goodness=Theme
4	pollute	present	soggy leftover bread	ponds and peas and sweetcorn and oats and duck food		tree rules
5	is	present			good property	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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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