--- title: At the park, ducklings follow their mother in a line, ducks tip upsi… — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares a… · tree and pragmatics description: At the park, ducklings follow their mother in a line, ducks tip upside down to dabble for food, and bread is the worst thing to throw them, while oats, peas or sweetcorn are much better. Who acts: ducklings, ducks, bread, oats. 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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 (ducklings, ducks, bread, oats), 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:4 # text = At the park, ducklings follow their mother in a line, ducks tip upside down to dabble for food, and bread is the worst thing to throw them, while oats, peas or sweetcorn are much 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 ducklings duckling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tip tip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 dabble dabble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advcl 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 33 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 sweetcorn sweetcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 much much ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | ducklings | ducklings's mother | | the park | | in a line | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mother=Theme at park=Trajectory | | 2 | **tip down** | present | ducks | upside | | | | down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme | | 3 | **dabble** | to-infinitive | ducks *not said here* | | | | | for food | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | bread | the worst thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | ducklings *not said here* | ducklings *= duckling* | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | oats and peas or sweetcorn | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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