--- title: Scientists love droppings because they tell stories: which animals l… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists love droppings because they tell stories: which animals live in a wood, what they ate, and even how many penguins live on the ice, seen from space. Who acts: Scientists, animals, many penguins. 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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 (Scientists, animals, many 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:9 # text = Scientists love droppings because they tell stories: which animals live in a wood, what they ate, and even how many penguins live on the ice, seen from space. # 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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 10 det _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Scientists | droppings | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dropping=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Scientists *= scientist* | stories | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **live** | present | which animals | | | a wood | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | | 4 | **eat** | past | animals *= animal* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 5 | **live** | present | many penguins | | | the ice | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Location | | 6 | **see** | participle | many penguins *not said here* | | | space | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:9`. **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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