--- title: Birds do not make watery wee; the white part of their droppings is t… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: Birds do not make watery wee; the white part of their droppings is their waste water turned into a paste, which saves water and weight for flying. Who acts: Birds, white part, paste. 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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 (Birds, white part, paste), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:13 # text = Birds do not make watery wee; the white part of their droppings is their waste water turned into a paste, which saves water and weight for flying. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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 Birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 watery watery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:outer _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 paste paste NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Birds | watery wee | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wee=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | the white part of Birds's droppings | | | a paste | | turn *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | present | a paste | water and weight | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | a paste *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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. 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