--- title: In winter the ducks stand on the ice on bare feet and do not freeze,… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: In winter the ducks stand on the ice on bare feet and do not freeze, and two black birds argue at the edge: a coot with a white beak and forehead, and a moorhen with a red and yellow beak. Who acts: ducks, two black birds. 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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 (ducks, two black birds), 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:3 # text = In winter the ducks stand on the ice on bare feet and do not freeze, and two black birds argue at the edge: a coot with a white beak and forehead, and a moorhen with a red and yellow beak. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 coot coot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 moorhen moorhen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 38 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | the ducks | | | the ice | winter | on bare feet | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ice=Location | | 2 | **not** **freeze** | present · do-support | the ducks *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | two black birds | | | the edge and a coot with a white beak and forehead and a moorhen with a red beak | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:3`. **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, R8-pos-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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