--- title: Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they stop to check instead of running, which kept wild donkeys safe on rocky ground. Who acts: Donkeys, something, coats. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 5 Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they stop to check instead of running, which kept wild donkeys safe on rocky ground. **Who acts:** Donkeys, something, coats · **What happens:** not be, seem, stop, check, run, keep · **To what, where:** wild donkeys 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 (Donkeys, something, coats), 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:5 # text = Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they stop to check instead of running, which kept wild donkeys safe on rocky ground. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 9 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 10 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:ccomp 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** **is** | present | Donkeys | | | | | stubborn *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | present | something | | | | | dangerous *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | coats *= coat* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | coats *= coat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run** | gerund | coats *= coat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | past | | wild donkeys | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=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:5`. **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. 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