--- title: A duck that tips upside down with its tail up is dabbling, reaching… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics description: A duck that tips upside down with its tail up is dabbling, reaching for plants and small animals just below the surface; diving ducks go right under. Who acts: duck, diving ducks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, diving ducks), 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:17 # text = A duck that tips upside down with its tail up is dabbling, reaching for plants and small animals just below the surface; diving ducks go right under. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tips tip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss 9 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 dabbling dabble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 below below ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 25 diving dive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 amod _ _ 26 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 28 right right ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 under under ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tip** | present | a duck | upside | | | | with tail up | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme | | 2 | **dabble** | present · progressive | a duck | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reach** | gerund | a duck *not said here* | | | | | for plants below the surface and small animals | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **go** | present | diving ducks | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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