--- title: A walrus climbing out onto the ice is like you hauling yourself out… — The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-ye… · tree and pragmatics description: A walrus climbing out onto the ice is like you hauling yourself out of a swimming pool with two ice picks: it hooks its long tusks into the ice and drags its heavy body up. Who acts: walrus climbing, climbing. 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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 (walrus climbing, climbing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:1 # text = A walrus climbing out onto the ice is like you hauling yourself out of a swimming pool with two ice picks: it hooks its long tusks into the ice and drags its heavy body up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 walrus walrus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 onto onto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hauling haul VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 picks pick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hooks hook VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 tusks tusk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nmod 36 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **haul** | present · progressive | walrus climbing | yourself | | a swimming pool | | with two ice picks | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme out pool=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **hook** | present | climbing | ice's long tusks | | the ice | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tusk=Theme into ice=Destination | | 3 | **drag up** | present | climbing *not said here* | ice's heavy body | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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