--- title: Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser. A sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/14/) [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/) / [Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals/) / 14 # Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 14 Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser. **What happens:** pile up, mine · **To what, where:** Bird droppings, islands This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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: 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:14 # text = Bird droppings piled up for centuries on islands were once mined as a rich fertiliser. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 piled pile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 11 mined mine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **pile up** | participle | | Bird droppings *not said here* | | islands | century | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination | | 2 | **mine** | past · passive | | Bird droppings | | | | as a rich fertiliser; once *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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