--- title: Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics description: Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like a net, and gulls really do squabble for every scrap, even snatching chips from a person's hand. Who acts: pelican, gulls. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/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/) / [Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/) / 3 # Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 3 Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like a net, and gulls really do squabble for every scrap, even snatching chips from a person's hand. **Who acts:** pelican, gulls · **What happens:** scoop, squabble, snatch · **To what, where:** fish, chips, hand This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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 (pelican, gulls), 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:3 # text = Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like a net, and gulls really do squabble for every scrap, even snatching chips from a person's hand. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pelican pelican NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 scoops scoop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 squabble squabble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 scrap scrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 snatching snatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 29 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | a pelican | | fish | | | with a stretchy pouch like a net | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent fish=Destination | | 2 | **squabble** | present · do-support | gulls | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **snatch** | gerund | a pelican *not said here* | chips | | a person's hand | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chip=Theme from hand=Source | 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: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 ×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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