Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 16

Giant pandas eat bamboo for many hours a day but digest only a small part of it, because their guts are short and made for meat, so they poo dozens of times a day and their droppings smell of fresh bamboo.

Who acts: Giant pandas, guts, pandas, droppings · What happens: eat, digest, be, make, poo, smell · To what, where: bamboo, small part, dozens

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 (Giant pandas, guts, pandas, droppings), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pandas	amod
2	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hours	amod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hours	nmod:unmarked
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 digest	cc
11	digest	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
12	only	only	ADV	_	15 part	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 part	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 part	amod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digest	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 part	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 short	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 short	mark
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 guts	nmod:poss
21	guts	gut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 short	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 short	cop
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eat	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 short	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 meat	case
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dozens	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 poo	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 poo	nsubj
31	poo	poo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
32	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 poo	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 times	case
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dozens	nmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 times	nmod:unmarked
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 smell	cc
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 droppings	nmod:poss
39	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 smell	nsubj
40	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 poo	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bamboo	case
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bamboo	amod
43	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 smell	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Giant pandas	bamboo	hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient
2	digest	present	Giant pandas not said here	a small part of part			tree rules
3	is	present	pandas's guts			short property	tree rules
4	make	participle	pandas's guts not said here			for meat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for meat=Asset
5	poo	present	pandas = panda	dozens of times a day			tree rules
6	smell	present	pandas's droppings			of fresh bamboo	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of bamboo=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:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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