--- title: Bread fills ducks up without much goodness, and leftover bread makes… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: Bread fills ducks up without much goodness, and leftover bread makes the water dirty and attracts rats; peas, oats, sweetcorn and duck food are better, in small amounts. Who acts: Bread, leftover bread, peas. 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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 (Bread, leftover bread, peas), 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:10 # text = Bread fills ducks up without much goodness, and leftover bread makes the water dirty and attracts rats; peas, oats, sweetcorn and duck food are better, in small amounts. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 3 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 without without ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 10 leftover leftover NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 attracts attract VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 18 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sweetcorn sweetcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 29 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 | **fill up** | present | Bread | ducks | | | | without much goodness | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent duck=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | leftover bread | the water | | | | dirty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product | | 3 | **attract** | present | leftover bread *not said here* | rats | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | peas and oats and sweetcorn and duck food | | | small amounts | | 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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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