Birds and baby animals, sentence 12

A duck's quack does echo; it is just quiet and hard to hear, and scientists tested it in an echo chamber at the University of Salford.

Who acts: quack, scientists · What happens: echo, be, hear, test · To what, where: quack, echo chamber

This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (quack, scientists), 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	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quack	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 duck	case
4	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 echo	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 echo	aux
6	echo	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 quiet	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 quiet	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 quiet	advmod
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 echo	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quiet	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hear	mark
15	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hard	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tested	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tested	cc
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tested	nsubj
19	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tested	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 chamber	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chamber	det
23	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chamber	compound
24	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tested	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 University	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 University	det
27	University	University	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 chamber	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Salford	case
29	Salford	Salford	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 University	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 echo	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	echo	present · do-support	a duck's quack				vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	quack			quiet property	tree rules
3	be		quack not said here				tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	quack not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	test	past	scientists	quack	a echo chamber at the University of Salford		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:12.

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, 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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