Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 9
Scientists love droppings because they tell stories: which animals live in a wood, what they ate, and even how many penguins live on the ice, seen from space.
Who acts: Scientists, animals, many penguins · What happens: love, tell, live, eat, see · To what, where: droppings, stories, wood, ice, space · 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 (Scientists, animals, many penguins), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | advcl |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 ate | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 penguins | amod |
| 24 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | nsubj |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 ice | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ice | det |
| 28 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 live | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 space | case |
| 32 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Scientists | droppings | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dropping=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Scientists = scientist | stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | live | present | which animals | a wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | animals = animal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 5 | live | present | many penguins | the ice | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | participle | many penguins not said here | space | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:9.
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 ×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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