--- title: Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowi… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back. Who acts: feet, warm blood, cold blood. 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 with --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 16 Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back. **Who acts:** feet, warm blood, cold blood · **What happens:** stay, freeze, flow in, heat, come back · **To what, where:** ice, cold blood 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 (feet, warm blood, cold blood), 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:16 # text = Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back. # 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 ×2 1 Ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 above above ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 freezing freeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 13 flowing flow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **stay** | present | Ducks's feet | | | | | above *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **freeze** | gerund | Ducks's feet *not said here* | | | ice | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **flow in** | gerund | warm blood *not said here* | the cold blood | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | | 4 | **heat** | present | warm blood | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come back** | gerund | the cold blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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. **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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