--- title: The famous «stubbornness» is really caution: on a rocky desert path,… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: The famous «stubbornness» is really caution: on a rocky desert path, running blindly could mean a fall, so a donkey stops and thinks where a horse would bolt. Who acts: famous stubbornness, running, donkey, horse. 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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 (famous stubbornness, running, donkey, horse), 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:2 # text = The famous «stubbornness» is really caution: on a rocky desert path, running blindly could mean a fall, so a donkey stops and thinks where a horse would bolt. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 stubbornness stubbornness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 really really ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 caution caution NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 17 blindly blindly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 bolt bolt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the famous stubbornness | caution | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | blindly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | could | running | a fall | | a rocky desert path | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Topic | | 4 | **stop** | present | a donkey | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a donkey *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **bolt** | would | a horse | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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: [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/1/) - next →: [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/)