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title: Atlantic salmon grow big at sea, then swim up the river where they h… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics
description: Atlantic salmon grow big at sea, then swim up the river where they hatched to lay their eggs, finding it by smell; they stop eating on the way and live on the fat built up at sea, and they can leap over 3 metres to climb waterfalls. Who acts: Atlantic salmon, salmon. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers
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# Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 7

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Atlantic salmon grow big at sea, then swim up the river where they hatched to lay their eggs, finding it by smell; they stop eating on the way and live on the fat built up at sea, and they can leap over 3 metres to climb waterfalls.

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**Who acts:** Atlantic salmon, salmon · **What happens:** grow, swim up, hatch, lay, find, stop · **To what, where:** sea, river, eggs, water, way, fat

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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 (Atlantic salmon, salmon), 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:7
# text = Atlantic salmon grow big at sea, then swim up the river where they hatched to lay their eggs, finding it by smell; they stop eating on the way and live on the fat built up at sea, and they can leap over 3 metres to climb waterfalls.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
51	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
52	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Atlantic salmon |  |  | sea |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sea=Location |
| 2 | **swim up** | present | Atlantic salmon *not said here* | the river |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hatch** | past | salmon |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | to-infinitive | salmon *not said here* | salmon's eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 5 | **find** | gerund | salmon *not said here* | water |  |  |  | by smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 6 | **stop** | present | salmon |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **eat** | gerund | salmon *not said here* |  |  | the way |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **live** | present | salmon *not said here* |  |  | the fat |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location |
| 9 | **build up** | participle |  | the fat *not said here* |  | sea |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **leap** | can | salmon |  |  | 3 metres |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over metre=Trajectory |
| 11 | **climb** | to-infinitive | salmon *not said here* | waterfalls |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location waterfall=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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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