--- title: A duck's quack does echo; scientists tested it in a special sound ro… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: A duck's quack does echo; scientists tested it in a special sound room, and the echo is just hard to hear because the quack fades away softly. Who acts: quack, echo. 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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 (quack, echo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:14 # text = A duck's quack does echo; scientists tested it in a special sound room, and the echo is just hard to hear because the quack fades away softly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:poss 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 9 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 softly softly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **echo** | present · do-support | a duck's quack | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **test** | past | echo | scientist | | a special sound room | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the echo | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **fade away** | present | the quack | | | | | away, softly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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