--- title: Daffy Duck shouts all day, but real ducks are mostly calm; oil from… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics description: Daffy Duck shouts all day, but real ducks are mostly calm; oil from a gland near the tail keeps them waterproof, and a clever blood system stops their feet freezing on ice. Who acts: Daffy Duck, real ducks, oil, clever blood system. 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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 (Daffy Duck, real ducks, oil, clever blood system), 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:3 # text = Daffy Duck shouts all day, but real ducks are mostly calm; oil from a gland near the tail keeps them waterproof, and a clever blood system stops their feet freezing on ice. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Daffy Daffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Duck Duck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 gland gland NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 waterproof waterproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 freezing freeze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Daffy Duck | | | | day | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | real ducks | | | | | calm, mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | oil from a gland near the tail | jumps *= jump* | | | | waterproof *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | a clever blood system | jumps's feet | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality foot=Eventuality | | 5 | **freeze** | gerund | a clever blood system *not said here* | | | ice | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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