--- title: Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space. Who acts: Real ducks, swan, you. 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 its dependency tree and t --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice, sentence 5 Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space. **Who acts:** Real ducks, swan, you · **What happens:** be, want, give · **To what, where:** you, space, swan 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 (Real ducks, swan, you), 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:5 # text = Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space. # 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): no change 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Real ducks | | | | | with peas and oats; good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | present | a swan | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | space | swan | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient space=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:5`. **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): no change. **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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