--- title: A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots ou… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots out its S-shaped neck like a spring to grab a fish or frog. Who acts: grey heron. A sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/13/) [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/) / [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/) / 13 # Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 13 A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots out its S-shaped neck like a spring to grab a fish or frog. **Who acts:** grey heron · **What happens:** stand, shoot out, grab · **To what, where:** shallow water, S shaped neck, fish This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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 heron), 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:13 # text = A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots out its S-shaped neck like a spring to grab a fish or frog. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 heron heron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 then then ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 15 S S PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **stand** | present | a grey heron | | | shallow water | still | perfectly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 2 | **shoot out** | present | a grey heron *not said here* | water's S shaped neck | | | then; spring | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | | 3 | **grab** | to-infinitive | a grey heron *not said here* | a fish or frog | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:13`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/12/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)