Ducks, geese and farm myths, sentence 7

Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting, and ducklings have imprinted on people, dogs and even boots.

Who acts: Ducklings · What happens: follow, see, hatch, call, imprint · To what, where: first moving thing, mother, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ducklings), 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	Ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follow	nsubj
2	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 thing	amod
5	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follow	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 hatching	mark
10	hatching	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 see	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 mother	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hatching	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 follow	parataxis
19	imprinting	imprinting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 imprinted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 imprinted	cc
22	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 imprinted	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 imprinted	aux
24	imprinted	imprint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 called	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 people	case
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 imprinted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dogs	punct
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 people	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 boots	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 boots	advmod
31	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 people	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 follow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Ducklings	the first moving thing		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	see	present	Ducklings = duckling	the first moving thing not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	hatch	gerund	Ducklings = duckling not said here	Ducklings's mother		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	call	present · passive		this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	imprint	present · perfect	ducklings		on people and dogs and boots	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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