The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 5
Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space.
Who acts: Real ducks, swan, you · What happens: be, want, give · To what, where: you, space, swan
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 (Real ducks, swan, you), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ducks | amod |
| 2 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 better | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 better | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 peas | case |
| 7 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 better | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 oats | cc |
| 9 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peas | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wants | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wants | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swan | det |
| 13 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wants | nsubj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 wants | advmod |
| 15 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wants | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wants | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real ducks | with peas and oats; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | a swan | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | space | swan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient space=Theme |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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