--- title: In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across the path while a swan hisses at anyone near its nest. Who acts: mallard mother, swan. A sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The park pond through the year: ducks,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/) / 1 # The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 1 In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across the path while a swan hisses at anyone near its nest. **Who acts:** mallard mother, swan · **What happens:** march, hiss · **To what, where:** wobbly line, path, anyone This is a sentence of the lesson «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mallard mother, swan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:1 # text = In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across the path while a swan hisses at anyone near its nest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 mallard mallard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 marches march VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ducklings duckling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 across across ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obl _ _ 21 near near ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **march** | present | a mallard mother | a wobbly line of ducklings | | the path | spring | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent line=Theme across path=Trajectory | | 2 | **hiss** | present | a swan | | | anyone | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at anyone=Location | 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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:1`. **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. **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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