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title: Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics
description: Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain. Who acts: Donkey coats, 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 7

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Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.

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**Who acts:** Donkey coats, donkeys · **What happens:** not be, need · **To what, where:** shelter, rain

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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 (Donkey coats, 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:7
# text = Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Donkey coats |  |  |  |  | like horses's coats; waterproof *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | donkeys | shelter |  | the rain |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shelter=Theme |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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