Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 10
Rabbits make two kinds of droppings, hard round ones and soft sticky ones, which they eat straight away so the food passes through the gut twice and more goodness is taken out of tough grass.
Who acts: Rabbits, droppings, food · What happens: make, eat, pass, take out · To what, where: two kinds, gut, more goodness, tough grass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 (Rabbits, droppings, food), 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 | Rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kinds | nummod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 droppings | case |
| 6 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ones | punct |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 9 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ones | compound |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ones | cc |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 13 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 eat | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinds | acl:relcl |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 eat | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 passes | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 food | det |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passes | nsubj |
| 24 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | advcl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 gut | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gut | det |
| 27 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passes | obl |
| 28 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 passes | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taken | cc |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 goodness | amod |
| 31 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux:pass |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 passes | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 grass | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 grass | case |
| 36 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 grass | amod |
| 37 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rabbits | two kinds of droppings and hard round ones and soft sticky ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Product | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | droppings = dropping | two kinds of droppings and hard round ones and soft sticky ones | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | pass | present | the food | the gut | twice property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gut=Location | |||
| 4 | take out | present · passive | more goodness | tough grass | 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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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): R5-strong ×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.
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