--- title: Rangers and scientists study droppings, which hold bits of food, hai… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: Rangers and scientists study droppings, which hold bits of food, hair and even DNA, to learn which animals live in a place and what they eat; rabbit droppings are little round balls, deer droppings look like dark beans and fox droppings often hold fur and seeds. 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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 (Rangers, droppings, animals, rabbit droppings), 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:21 # text = Rangers and scientists study droppings, which hold bits of food, hair and even DNA, to learn which animals live in a place and what they eat; rabbit droppings are little round balls, deer droppings look like dark beans and fox droppings often hold fur and seeds. # 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 Rangers ranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 conj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 47 often often ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 49 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **study** | present | Rangers and scientists | droppings | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Topic | | 2 | **hold** | present | droppings | bits of food and hair and DNA | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Rangers and scientists *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **live** | present | which animals | | | a place | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **eat** | present | animals *= animal* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | rabbit droppings | little round balls | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | present | deer droppings | | | | | like dark beans and fox droppings | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **hold** | infinitive | deer droppings *not said here* | fur and seeds | | | | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=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:21`. **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. 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