Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 14
Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser.
What happens: pile up, mine · To what, where: Bird droppings, islands
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: 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 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 droppings | compound |
| 2 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 droppings | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 piled | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 piled | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 piled | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mined | aux:pass |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 mined | advmod |
| 11 | mined | mine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 fertiliser | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fertiliser | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fertiliser | amod |
| 15 | fertiliser | fertiliser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mined | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mined | 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 | pile up | participle | Bird droppings not said here | islands | century | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination | |||
| 2 | mine | past · passive | Bird droppings | as a rich fertiliser; once property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:14.
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. 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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