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title: Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty t… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better. Who acts: Bread, rotting leftovers. A sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 16

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Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.

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**Who acts:** Bread, rotting leftovers · **What happens:** fill, rot, dirty, be · **To what, where:** ducks, pond

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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 (Bread, rotting leftovers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson:16
# text = Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dirty	dirty	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sweetcorn	sweetcorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | Bread | ducks |  |  |  | with little goodness | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent duck=Patient with goodness=Instrument |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dirty** | present | rotting leftovers | the pond and oats and peas and sweetcorn or duck food |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pond=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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