The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 9

Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother, and can swim and feed within a day; male mallards have green heads, and females are brown to hide on the nest.

Who acts: Ducklings, male mallards, females · What happens: follow, move, see, hatch, swim, feed · To what, where: first moving thing, mother, green heads, nest

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 (Ducklings, male mallards, females), 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	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 thing	amod
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	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	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 swim	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swim	cc
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 swim	aux
18	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 follow	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 feed	cc
20	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swim	conj
21	within	within	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mallards	amod
26	mallards	mallard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 follow	parataxis
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heads	amod
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 brown	cc
32	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 brown	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 brown	cop
34	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 follow	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hide	mark
36	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 brown	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 nest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 nest	det
39	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hide	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 follow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Ducklings	the first moving thing				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	move	gerund						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	see	present	ducklings = duckling	the first moving thing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	hatch	gerund	ducklings = duckling not said here	ducklings's mother				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
5	swim	can	Ducklings not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	feed	infinitive	Ducklings not said here			day		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	male mallards	green heads				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
8	is	present	females				brown property	tree rules
9	hide	to-infinitive	females not said here		the nest			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nest=Location

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:9.

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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