Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 13

Birds do not make watery wee; the white part of their droppings is their waste water turned into a paste, which saves water and weight for flying.

Who acts: Birds, white part, paste · What happens: not make, be, save, fly · To what, where: watery wee, paste, water

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 (Birds, white part, paste), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wee	amod
6	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj:outer
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 droppings	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 droppings	nmod:poss
13	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 part	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 water	nmod:poss
16	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 water	compound
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 paste	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 paste	det
21	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saves	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 saves	nsubj
24	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 paste	acl:relcl
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saves	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 weight	cc
27	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 water	conj
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 flying	mark
29	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 saves	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	Birds	watery wee			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wee=Product
2	is	present	the white part of Birds's droppings		a paste	turn property	tree rules
3	save	present	a paste	water and weight			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	fly	gerund	a paste not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:13.

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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