--- title: Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usu… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting, and ducklings have imprinted on people, dogs and even boots. Who acts: Ducklings. 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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 (Ducklings), 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:7 # text = Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting, and ducklings have imprinted on people, dogs and even boots. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ducklings duckling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 5 moving moving NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hatching hatch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 imprinting imprinting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 ducklings duckling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 imprinted imprint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Ducklings | the first moving thing | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | Ducklings *= duckling* | the first moving thing *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 3 | **hatch** | gerund | Ducklings *= duckling* *not said here* | Ducklings's mother | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **imprint** | present · perfect | ducklings | | | | | on people and dogs and boots | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: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 ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/6/) - next →: [Ducks, geese and farm myths, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/)