--- title: Squeeze a handful of bog moss and water pours out as if from a bath… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Squeeze a handful of bog moss and water pours out as if from a bath sponge; a whole bog works like that, holding rain and letting it go slowly. Who acts: you, water, whole bog, bog. 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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 (you, water, whole bog, bog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:1 # text = Squeeze a handful of bog moss and water pours out as if from a bath sponge; a whole bog works like that, holding rain and letting it go slowly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.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 Squeeze squeeze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pours pour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 26 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | a handful of bog moss | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | | 2 | **pour out** | present | water | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **work** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a whole bog | | | a bath sponge | | like that | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | a whole bog *not said here* | rain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 5 | **let** | gerund | a whole bog *not said here* | bog | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | bog *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/0/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)