--- title: Ducks cannot crow; roosters crow, especially before dawn, using an i… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Ducks cannot crow; roosters crow, especially before dawn, using an inner body clock, and the top rooster usually crows first. Who acts: Ducks, roosters, top rooster. 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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 (Ducks, roosters, top rooster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:12 # text = Ducks cannot crow; roosters crow, especially before dawn, using an inner body clock, and the top rooster usually crows first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 crow crow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 roosters rooster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 crow crow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 especially especially ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 crows crow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **crow** | can | Ducks | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **crow** | present | roosters | | | | dawn | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | gerund | roosters *not said here* | a inner body clock | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 4 | **crow** | present | the top rooster | | | | | first, usually *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/11/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/)