The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 10

Bread fills ducks up without much goodness, and leftover bread makes the water dirty and attracts rats; peas, oats, sweetcorn and duck food are better, in small amounts.

Who acts: Bread, leftover bread, peas · What happens: fill up, make, attract, be · To what, where: ducks, water, rats, small amounts

This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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 (Bread, leftover bread, peas), 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	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fills	nsubj
2	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 better	parataxis
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fills	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 fills	compound:prt
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 goodness	case
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goodness	amod
7	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fills	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 makes	cc
10	leftover	leftover	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bread	compound
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fills	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 makes	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 attracts	cc
17	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 makes	conj
18	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attracts	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 peas	punct
20	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 better	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 oats	punct
22	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 peas	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sweetcorn	punct
24	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peas	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 food	cc
26	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 food	compound
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peas	conj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 better	cop
29	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 amounts	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 amounts	case
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 amounts	amod
33	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 better	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 better	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill up	present	Bread	ducks		without much goodness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent duck=Patient
2	make	present	leftover bread	the water		dirty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product
3	attract	present	leftover bread not said here	rats			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
4	is	present	peas and oats and sweetcorn and duck food		small amounts	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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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