The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 3

In winter the ducks stand on the ice on bare feet and do not freeze, and two black birds argue at the edge: a coot with a white beak and forehead, and a moorhen with a red and yellow beak.

Who acts: ducks, two black birds · What happens: stand, not freeze, argue · To what, where: ice, edge

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 (ducks, two black birds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	nsubj
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ice	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feet	amod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 freeze	cc
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 freeze	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 freeze	advmod
15	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stand	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 argue	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 argue	cc
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 birds	nummod
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 birds	amod
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 argue	nsubj
21	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 edge	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 edge	det
24	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 argue	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 coot	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 coot	det
27	coot	coot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 edge	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 beak	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beak	det
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beak	amod
31	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coot	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 forehead	cc
33	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beak	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 moorhen	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 moorhen	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 moorhen	det
37	moorhen	moorhen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coot	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	43 beak	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 beak	det
40	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beak	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 yellow	cc
42	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 red	conj
43	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 moorhen	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	the ducks	the ice	winter	on bare feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ice=Location
2	not freeze	present · do-support	the ducks not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	argue speech: disagree	present	two black birds	the edge and a coot with a white beak and forehead and a moorhen with a red beak			vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.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 ×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.

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