--- title: Freshwater mussels filter and clean river water as they feed, pearl… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics description: Freshwater mussels filter and clean river water as they feed, pearl mussels can live over 100 years, and their babies spend their first months on the gills of salmon or trout. Who acts: Freshwater mussels, mussels, pearl mussels, babies. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/16/) [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/) / [Rivers, lakes and ponds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/) / 16 # Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 16 Freshwater mussels filter and clean river water as they feed, pearl mussels can live over 100 years, and their babies spend their first months on the gills of salmon or trout. **Who acts:** Freshwater mussels, mussels, pearl mussels, babies · **What happens:** filter, clean, feed, live, spend · **To what, where:** river water, gills 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 (Freshwater mussels, mussels, pearl mussels, babies), 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:16 # text = Freshwater mussels filter and clean river water as they feed, pearl mussels can live over 100 years, and their babies spend their first months on the gills of salmon or trout. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Freshwater freshwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 mussels mussel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 filter filter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 mussels mussel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 16 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 amod _ _ 26 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 salmon salmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **filter** | present | Freshwater mussels | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **clean** | present | Freshwater mussels *not said here* | river water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | present | mussels *= mussel* | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **live** | can | pearl mussels | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spend** | present | mussels's babies | | | | month | on the gills of salmon or trout *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on gill=Goal | 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:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:16`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/15/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/)