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title: Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satell… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satellite photos of the ice, and scientists use them to find and count penguin colonies; the colour comes from the krill and fish penguins eat. Who acts: scientists, colour, penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits
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# Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 15

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Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satellite photos of the ice, and scientists use them to find and count penguin colonies; the colour comes from the krill and fish penguins eat.

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**Who acts:** scientists, colour, penguins · **What happens:** see, use, find, count, come, eat · **To what, where:** Huge brown stains, satellite photos, droppings, penguin colonies, krill, fish

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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: who acts (scientists, colour, penguins), 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:15
# text = Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satellite photos of the ice, and scientists use them to find and count penguin colonies; the colour comes from the krill and fish penguins eat.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can · passive |  | Huge brown stains of penguin droppings |  | satellite photos of the ice |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | present | scientists | droppings *= dropping* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* | penguin colonies |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present | the colour |  |  | the krill and fish |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from krill=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **eat** | present | penguins | fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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