Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 14

A duck's quack does echo; scientists tested it in a special sound room, and the echo is just hard to hear because the quack fades away softly.

Who acts: quack, echo · What happens: echo, test, be, hear, fade away · To what, where: scientist, special sound room

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (quack, echo), 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 quack	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 duck	case
4	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 echo	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 echo	aux
6	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tested	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 scientists	punct
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tested	nsubj
9	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tested	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 room	det
13	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 room	amod
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tested	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hard	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 echo	det
19	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hard	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hard	cop
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 hard	advmod
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tested	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hear	mark
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hard	csubj
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 fades	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 quack	det
27	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fades	nsubj
28	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 fades	advmod
30	softly	softly	ADV	_	28 fades	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 echo	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	echo	present · do-support	a duck's quack				tree rules
2	test	past	echo	scientist	a special sound room		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	the echo			hard property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	fade away	present	the quack			away, softly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

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:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish/14/