--- title: Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food fro… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics description: Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food from each other and from people, and are more likely to grab food that a person is holding or looking at. Who acts: Gulls, noisy birds, person. 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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 (Gulls, noisy birds, person), 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:14 # text = Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food from each other and from people, and are more likely to grab food that a person is holding or looking at. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 steal steal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 12 obl _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 fixed _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gulls | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | noisy birds | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 3 | **steal** | present | noisy birds *not said here* | food | | each | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from each=Source | | 4 | **is** | present | Gulls *not said here* | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **grab** | to-infinitive | Gulls *not said here* | food | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 6 | **hold** | present · progressive | a person | food | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 7 | **look** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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