--- title: Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip thei… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics description: Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres, more than its stomach. Who acts: Pelicans, pouch. 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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 (Pelicans, pouch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:13 # text = Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres, more than its stomach. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pelicans pelican NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scoop scoop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 tip tip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 drain drain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 pelican pelican NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scoop** | present | Pelicans | fish and water | | fish's throat pouch | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into pouch=Destination | | 2 | **tip** | present | Pelicans *not said here* | fish's heads | | | then | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **drain** | to-infinitive | Pelicans *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | | 4 | **swallow** | gerund | Pelicans *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold** | present | a brown pelican's pouch | 11 litres | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme more=Eventuality | 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:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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