--- title: They stand on stilt roots like a table on long legs, and some poke l… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: They stand on stilt roots like a table on long legs, and some poke little pencil-like breathing roots up out of the mud, because the sticky mud below has almost no air. Who acts: mangroves, some, sticky mud. 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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 (mangroves, some, sticky mud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:1 # text = They stand on stilt roots like a table on long legs, and some poke little pencil-like breathing roots up out of the mud, because the sticky mud below has almost no air. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 stilt stilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 15 poke poke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 17 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 22 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 below below ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 34 almost almost ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **stand** | present | mangroves *= mangrove* | | | stilt roots like a table on long legs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on root=Location | | 2 | **poke** | present | some | little like breathing roots | | the mud | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | the sticky mud | no air | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | 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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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 ×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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