--- title: Ducks like mallards feed by tipping their heads under the water and… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: Ducks like mallards feed by tipping their heads under the water and their tails up to nibble plants on the bottom, which is the real «Up tails all!» of the Ducks' Ditty. Who acts: Ducks, bottom. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/18/) [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/) / [The real animals of the river bank: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/) / 18 # The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 18 Ducks like mallards feed by tipping their heads under the water and their tails up to nibble plants on the bottom, which is the real «Up tails all!» of the Ducks' Ditty. **Who acts:** Ducks, bottom · **What happens:** feed, tip, nibble, be · **To what, where:** heads, water, plants, bottom This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Ducks, bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:18 # text = Ducks like mallards feed by tipping their heads under the water and their tails up to nibble plants on the bottom, which is the real «Up tails all!» of the Ducks' Ditty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 mallards mallard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tipping tip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 nibble nibble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 Up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 33 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 35 Ducks duck PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 36 ' 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 Ditty ditty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | Ducks like mallards | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tip** | gerund | Ducks like mallards *not said here* | Ducks's heads and Ducks's tails | | the water | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Destination | | 3 | **nibble** | to-infinitive | Ducks like mallards *not said here* | plants | | the bottom | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the bottom | | | | | all, real *property* | tree rules | 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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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