Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 4
A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way.
Who acts: dung beetle · What happens: roll, feed, steer · To what, where: dung balls, young
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 (dung beetle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beetle | det |
| 2 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beetle | compound |
| 3 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolls | nsubj |
| 4 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dung | dung | NOUN | _ | 6 balls | compound |
| 6 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolls | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feed | mark |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rolls | advcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 young | nmod:poss |
| 10 | young | young | NOUN | _ | 8 feed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steering | punct |
| 12 | steering | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rolls | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Way | det |
| 15 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Way | amod |
| 16 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 steering | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolls | 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 | roll | present | a dung beetle | dung balls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | a dung beetle not said here | beetle's young | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | steer | gerund | a dung beetle not said here | by the Milky Way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by way=Destination |
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:4.
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): 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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