The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 18

Ducks like mallards feed by tipping their heads under the water and their tails up to nibble plants on the bottom, which is the real «Up tails all!» of the Ducks' Ditty.

Who acts: Ducks, bottom · What happens: feed, tip, nibble, be · To what, where: heads, water, plants, bottom

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Ducks, bottom), 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	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 mallards	case
3	mallards	mallard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ducks	nmod
4	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 tipping	mark
6	tipping	tip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 feed	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tipping	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tipping	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tails	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tails	nmod:poss
14	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heads	conj
15	up	up	ADV	_	17 nibble	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 nibble	mark
17	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feed	advcl
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 nibble	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nibble	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 real	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 real	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 real	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 real	det
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bottom	acl:relcl
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 tails	punct
28	Up	up	ADV	_	29 tails	advmod
29	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 real	conj
30	all	all	ADV	_	26 real	advmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 tails	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 tails	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 Ditty	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Ducks	det
35	Ducks	duck	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 Ditty	nmod:poss
36	'	's	PART	_	35 Ducks	case
37	Ditty	ditty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tails	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Ducks like mallards				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	tip	gerund	Ducks like mallards not said here	Ducks's heads and Ducks's tails	the water		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Destination
3	nibble	to-infinitive	Ducks like mallards not said here	plants	the bottom		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
4	is	present	the bottom			all, real property	tree rules

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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:18.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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