--- title: Donkeys form strong friendships and can become very upset if their f… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Donkeys form strong friendships and can become very upset if their friend is taken away. Who acts: 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. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 8 Donkeys form strong friendships and can become very upset if their friend is taken away. **Who acts:** Donkeys · **What happens:** form, become, take away · **To what, where:** strong friendships, friend 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), 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:8 # text = Donkeys form strong friendships and can become very upset if their friend is taken away. # 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 1 Donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **form** | present | Donkeys | strong friendships | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme | | 2 | **become** | can | Donkeys *not said here* | | | | | upset *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **take away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | friendships's friend | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «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:8`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/7/) - next →: [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/)