Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 12

Dung beetles roll balls of dung away from the pile to eat and to feed their young, and scientists found that some use the Milky Way and the Moon to keep a straight line at night; they went straight even under a starry sky in a planetarium, a dome-shaped room that shows the night sky on its ceiling.

Who acts: Dung beetles, scientists, some, shaped room · What happens: roll, eat, feed, find, use, keep · To what, where: young, Milky Way, straight line, starry sky, night sky, ceiling · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dung beetles, scientists, some, shaped room), 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	Dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beetles	compound
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roll	nsubj
3	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balls	compound
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dung	case
6	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balls	nmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	10 pile	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pile	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pile	det
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dung	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pile	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 feed	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 feed	mark
15	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eat	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 young	nmod:poss
17	young	young	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 use	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 use	nsubj
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 found	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Way	det
26	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Way	amod
27	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 use	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Moon	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Moon	det
30	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Way	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 use	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 line	det
34	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 line	amod
35	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 night	case
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 balls	conj
41	straight	straight	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
42	even	even	ADV	_	46 sky	advmod
43	under	under	ADP	_	46 sky	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sky	det
45	starry	starry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sky	amod
46	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 planetarium	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 planetarium	det
49	planetarium	planetarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sky	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 room	punct
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 room	det
52	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shaped	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 dome	punct
54	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 room	amod
55	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 planetarium	appos
56	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 shows	nsubj
57	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 room	acl:relcl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 sky	det
59	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sky	compound
60	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 shows	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 ceiling	case
62	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 ceiling	nmod:poss
63	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 shows	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roll	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll		Dung beetles					tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	to-infinitive		balls's young				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient
4	find	past	scientists					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	use	present	some	the Milky Way and the Moon				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
6	keep	to-infinitive	some not said here	a straight line		night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
7	go	past	Scientists = scientist		a starry sky in a planetarium		straight property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under sky=Location
8	shape	participle						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	show	present	a shaped room	the night sky	beetle's ceiling			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sky=Recipient

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:12.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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