Oil and water, and things that won't mix, sentence 15

Ducks spread oil from a gland near the tail over their feathers, so water runs off; that is why they preen so much.

Who acts: Ducks, water, that · What happens: spread, run off, be, preen · To what, where: oil, gland

This is a sentence of the lesson «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» of the chemistry 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, water, that), 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	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 gland	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gland	det
6	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tail	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gland	nmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 feathers	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feathers	nmod:poss
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 runs	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 runs	advmod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 runs	nsubj
16	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spread	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 runs	compound:prt
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 spread	parataxis
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 preen	nsubj
23	preen	preen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	acl:relcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 preen	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Ducks	oil	a gland near the tail	over ducks's feathers	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme over feather=Destination
2	run off	present	water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
4	preen	present	ducks = duck				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:chemistry:007-oil-and-water.lesson:15.

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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