--- title: In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is scared, begs for waffles and carries Shrek and Fiona on his back. Who acts: Donkey. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/) / 0 # Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 0 In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is scared, begs for waffles and carries Shrek and Fiona on his back. **Who acts:** Donkey · **What happens:** not stop, talk, dig in, be, beg, carry · **To what, where:** Shrek, hooves, back This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 (Donkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:0 # text = In Shrek, Donkey never stops talking, digs his hooves in when he is scared, begs for waffles and carries Shrek and Fiona on his back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.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, R2-punct-next ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Shrek Shrek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 Donkey Donkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 18 begs beg VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 waffles waffle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 Shrek Shrek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 Fiona Fiona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** | present | Donkey | | | Shrek | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | Donkey *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dig in** | present | Donkey *not said here* | Donkey's hooves | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hoof=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Donkey | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Donkey *not said here* | | | | | for waffles | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for waffle=Topic | | 6 | **carry** | present | Donkey *not said here* | Shrek and Fiona | | Donkey's back | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrek=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:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:0`. **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, R2-punct-next ×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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