Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 21

Rangers and scientists study droppings, which hold bits of food, hair and even DNA, to learn which animals live in a place and what they eat; rabbit droppings are little round balls, deer droppings look like dark beans and fox droppings often hold fur and seeds.

Who acts: Rangers, droppings, animals, rabbit droppings, deer droppings · What happens: study, hold, learn, live, eat, be · To what, where: droppings, bits, place, little round balls, fur · 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 (Rangers, droppings, animals, rabbit 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	Rangers	ranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 study	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 scientists	cc
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rangers	conj
4	study	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 study	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bits	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hold	nsubj
8	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 droppings	acl:relcl
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hold	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bits	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hair	punct
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 DNA	cc
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 DNA	advmod
16	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 learn	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 learn	mark
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 study	conj
20	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	21 animals	det
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 live	nsubj
22	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learn	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 live	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 what	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 place	conj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
29	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 balls	punct
31	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 droppings	compound
32	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 balls	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 balls	cop
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 balls	amod
35	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 balls	amod
36	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 study	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 look	punct
38	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 droppings	compound
39	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 look	nsubj
40	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 study	conj
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 beans	case
42	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beans	amod
43	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 look	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 droppings	cc
45	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 droppings	compound
46	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 beans	conj
47	often	often	ADV	_	48 hold	advmod
48	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 look	advcl
49	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hold	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 seeds	cc
51	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 fur	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 study	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	study	present	Rangers and scientists	droppings			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Topic
2	hold	present	droppings	bits of food and hair and DNA			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	learn	to-infinitive	Rangers and scientists not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live	present	which animals		a place		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
5	eat	present	animals = animal				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	rabbit droppings	little round balls			tree rules
7	look	present	deer droppings			like dark beans and fox droppings	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	hold	infinitive	deer droppings not said here	fur and seeds		often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=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:21.

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): R7-rel-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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