--- title: Among those roots live fish that walk on mud, fish that shoot down i… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Among those roots live fish that walk on mud, fish that shoot down insects with a squirt of water, crabs waving one giant claw, and in the biggest mangrove forest of all, tigers that swim from island to island. Who acts: fish, crabs, tigers. 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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 (fish, crabs, tigers), 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:2 # text = Among those roots live fish that walk on mud, fish that shoot down insects with a squirt of water, crabs waving one giant claw, and in the biggest mangrove forest of all, tigers that swim from island to island. # 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): no change 1 Among among ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 down down ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 squirt squirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 23 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 32 mangrove mangrove NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | fish and fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | | | that roots | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among root=Location | | 2 | **walk** | present | fish and fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | | | mud | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mud=Trajectory | | 3 | **shoot down** | present | fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | insects | | | | with a squirt of water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent insect=Patient with squirt=Instrument | | 4 | **wave** | gerund | crabs *not said here* | one giant claw | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | | 5 | **swim** | present | tigers | | | island | | to island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to island=Destination | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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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