Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 2
It is a clever trick that gets twice as much goodness out of tough grass.
Who acts: rabbit, clever trick · What happens: be, get · To what, where: clever trick, much goodness, tough grass
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 (rabbit, clever trick), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trick | amod |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | acl:relcl |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 much | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goodness | amod |
| 11 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 14 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rabbit | a clever trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a clever trick | much goodness | tough grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goodness=Stimulus |
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:2.
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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