--- title: Geese defend their nests fiercely and hiss at people; they are big a… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Geese defend their nests fiercely and hiss at people; they are big and brave and have been kept as guards, and an old Roman story tells of geese warning of a night attack. Who acts: Geese, old Roman story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geese, old Roman story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:10 # text = Geese defend their nests fiercely and hiss at people; they are big and brave and have been kept as guards, and an old Roman story tells of geese warning of a night attack. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 defend defend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 fiercely fiercely ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hiss hiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 geese geese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 compound _ _ 31 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **defend** | present | Geese | Geese's nests | | | | fiercely *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary | | 2 | **hiss** | present | Geese *not said here* | | | | | at people | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | Geese *= goose* | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Geese *= goose* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | present · perfect · passive | Geese *= goose* *not said here* | | | | | as guards | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a old Roman story | | | | | of geese warning of a night attack | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **warn** | | | a night attack | | | | | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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