--- title: Picture a donkey sanctuary in a rainy country: donkeys crowded in a… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a donkey sanctuary in a rainy country: donkeys crowded in a shed because their desert coats are not waterproof, two best friends grooming each other, and one rolling happily in its favourite dusty patch. Who acts: you, desert coats, two best friends. 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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 (you, desert coats, two best friends), 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:3 # text = Picture a donkey sanctuary in a rainy country: donkeys crowded in a shed because their desert coats are not waterproof, two best friends grooming each other, and one rolling happily in its favourite dusty patch. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 11 crowded crowd VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shed shed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 waterproof waterproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 26 grooming groom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 26 obj _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 fixed _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 conj _ _ 32 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 happily happily ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a donkey sanctuary | | a rainy country | | two best friends *obl* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sanctuary=Theme | | 2 | **crowd** | participle | | donkeys *not said here* | | a shed | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shed=Destination | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | waffles's desert coats | | | | | waterproof *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **groom** | gerund | two best friends *not said here* | each | | | | | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | | 5 | **roll** | gerund | | | | shed's favourite dusty patch | | happily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in patch=Trajectory | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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