--- title: A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Mi… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way. Who acts: dung beetle. 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 --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 4 A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way. **Who acts:** dung beetle · **What happens:** roll, feed, steer · **To what, where:** dung balls, young 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 (dung beetle), 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:4 # text = A dung beetle rolls dung balls to feed its young, steering by the Milky Way. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 dung dung NOUN NN _ 6 compound _ _ 6 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 young young NOUN NN _ 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 steering steer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Way Way PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 . . 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 | **roll** | present | a dung beetle | dung balls | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | a dung beetle *not said here* | beetle's young | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | | 3 | **steer** | gerund | a dung beetle *not said here* | | | | | by the Milky Way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by way=Destination | 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:4`. **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): R8-pos-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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