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title: Grey herons stand still in shallow water so fish do not notice them,… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics
description: Grey herons stand still in shallow water so fish do not notice them, then stab with a sudden strike, and they also raid garden ponds for goldfish. Who acts: Grey herons, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 10

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Grey herons stand still in shallow water so fish do not notice them, then stab with a sudden strike, and they also raid garden ponds for goldfish.

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**Who acts:** Grey herons, fish · **What happens:** stand, not notice, stab, raid · **To what, where:** shallow water, herons, garden ponds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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 (Grey herons, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:10
# text = Grey herons stand still in shallow water so fish do not notice them, then stab with a sudden strike, and they also raid garden ponds for goldfish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.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	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	herons	heron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	stab	stab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	raid	raid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Grey herons |  |  | shallow water | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | fish | herons *= heron* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stab** | infinitive | fish *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with a sudden strike | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with strike=Instrument |
| 4 | **raid** | present | fish | garden ponds |  |  |  | for goldfish | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent pond=Location for goldfish=Theme |

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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:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:10`.

**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.

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

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