--- title: Wetland living things have clever answers: mangroves grow breathing… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Wetland living things have clever answers: mangroves grow breathing roots like snorkels, sundews and flytraps catch insects for the nitrogen the soil lacks, and fish like mudskippers even walk out onto the mud. Who acts: Wetland living things, mangroves, soil, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Swamps, --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 3 Wetland living things have clever answers: mangroves grow breathing roots like snorkels, sundews and flytraps catch insects for the nitrogen the soil lacks, and fish like mudskippers even walk out onto the mud. **Who acts:** Wetland living things, mangroves, soil, fish · **What happens:** live, have, grow, breathe, catch, lack · **To what, where:** clever answers, breathing roots, insects, nitrogen, mud 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 (Wetland living things, mangroves, soil, fish), 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:3 # text = Wetland living things have clever answers: mangroves grow breathing roots like snorkels, sundews and flytraps catch insects for the nitrogen the soil lacks, and fish like mudskippers even walk out onto the mud. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wetland wetland NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:compound 2 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 mangroves mangrove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 10 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 amod _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 snorkels snorkel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sundews sundew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 flytraps flytrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 18 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lacks lack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 mudskippers mudskipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 onto onto ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Wetland living things | clever answers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | mangroves | breathing roots and sundews and flytraps | | | | like snorkels | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **catch** | present | | insects | | | | for the nitrogen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent insect=Theme for nitrogen=Beneficiary | | 6 | **lack** | present | the soil | the nitrogen *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **walk out** | infinitive | fish like mudskippers | | | the mud | | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/2/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)