--- title: Real donkeys are fairly quiet, but a bray can be heard about three k… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Real donkeys are fairly quiet, but a bray can be heard about three kilometres away; the «hee» is breathed in and the «haw» breathed out. Who acts: Real donkeys. 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 a --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 4 Real donkeys are fairly quiet, but a bray can be heard about three kilometres away; the «hee» is breathed in and the «haw» breathed out. **Who acts:** Real donkeys · **What happens:** be, hear, breathe in, breathe out · **To what, where:** bray, « hee, « haw 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 (Real donkeys), 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:4 # text = Real donkeys are fairly quiet, but a bray can be heard about three kilometres away; the «hee» is breathed in and the «haw» breathed out. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bray bray NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 16 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 hee hee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 breathed breathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 haw haw NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 30 breathed breathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | Real donkeys | | | | | fairly, quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | can · passive | | a bray | | | | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **breathe in** | present · passive | | the « hee | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **breathe out** | participle · passive | | the « haw | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: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): R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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