--- title: Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive wh… — The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-ye… · tree and pragmatics description: Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells. Who acts: Walruses. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/5/) [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/) / [The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/) / 5 # The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 5 Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells. **Who acts:** Walruses · **What happens:** find, suck · **To what, where:** clams, dark seabed, shells This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 (Walruses), 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:5 # text = Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Walruses walrus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 clams clam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 suck suck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **find** | present | Walruses | clams | | the dark seabed | | with hundreds of sensitive whiskers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clam=Topic | | 2 | **suck** | present | Walruses *not said here* | clams *= clam* | | tusks's shells | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme out shell=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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:5`. **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): 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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