Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 19

Dogs leave wee on posts and trees as messages telling other dogs who passed and when, so a walk gives a dog its news of the day.

Who acts: Dogs, messages, other dogs, walk · What happens: leave, tell, pass, give · To what, where: wee, posts, other dogs, news, dog · 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 (Dogs, messages, other dogs, walk), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 posts	case
5	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trees	cc
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 posts	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 telling	mark
9	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obl
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 messages	acl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dogs	amod
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 telling	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dogs	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 when	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 passed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gives	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 gives	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 walk	det
20	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	nsubj
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	iobj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 news	nmod:poss
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 news	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Dogs	wee		posts and trees	messages obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wee=Theme on post=Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	messages not said here		other dogs			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
3	pass	past	other dogs					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present	a walk	walk's news of the day	a dog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient news=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:19.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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