--- title: White bread is bad for ducks: it fills them up without the goodness… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: White bread is bad for ducks: it fills them up without the goodness they need, and soggy leftover bread pollutes ponds; peas, sweetcorn, oats and duck food are better. Who acts: White bread, duck, feet, soggy leftover bread. 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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 (White bread, duck, feet, soggy leftover bread), 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:6 # text = White bread is bad for ducks: it fills them up without the goodness they need, and soggy leftover bread pollutes ponds; peas, sweetcorn, oats and duck food are better. # 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 ×1 1 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 without without ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 soggy soggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 leftover leftover NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pollutes pollute VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 sweetcorn sweetcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | White bread | | | | | for ducks; bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fill up** | present | duck | feet *= foot* | | | | without the goodness | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **need** | present | feet *= foot* | the goodness *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot goodness=Theme | | 4 | **pollute** | present | soggy leftover bread | ponds and peas and sweetcorn and oats and duck food | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Ducks, geese and farm myths, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/4/) - next →: [Ducks, geese and farm myths, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/)