--- title: Ducks and geese, like many farm animals, are also wrapped in myths,… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Ducks and geese, like many farm animals, are also wrapped in myths, from quacks that never echo to ostriches hiding their heads, and a bit of science puts them right. Who acts: quacks, ostriches, bit. 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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 (quacks, ostriches, bit), 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:3 # text = Ducks and geese, like many farm animals, are also wrapped in myths, from quacks that never echo to ostriches hiding their heads, and a bit of science puts them right. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 geese geese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 quacks quack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 echo echo VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 right right ADV RB _ 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | present · passive | | Ducks like many farm animals and geese | | myths from quacks | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in myth=Destination | | 2 | **not** **echo** | present | quacks | | | | | to ostriches | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | gerund | ostriches *not said here* | ostriches's heads | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **put** | present | a bit of science | heads *= head* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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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