--- title: Donkeys' very long ears catch far-off calls and give off heat in hot… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Donkeys' very long ears catch far-off calls and give off heat in hot deserts, and each ear can turn on its own. Who acts: long ears, ear. 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 pragmatics of ev --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 6 Donkeys' very long ears catch far-off calls and give off heat in hot deserts, and each ear can turn on its own. **Who acts:** long ears, ear · **What happens:** catch, give off, turn · **To what, where:** far calls, heat, hot deserts, own 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 (long ears, ear), 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:6 # text = Donkeys' very long ears catch far-off calls and give off heat in hot deserts, and each ear can turn on its own. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 off off ADV RB _ 7 compound _ _ 10 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 12 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ _ 27 . . 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 | **catch** | present | Donkeys's long ears | far calls | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 2 | **give off** | present | Donkeys's long ears *not said here* | heat | | hot deserts | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | can | each ear | | | heat's own | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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