--- title: Male fiddler crabs wave one giant claw to attract females and warn r… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Male fiddler crabs wave one giant claw to attract females and warn rivals, and they eat with the small claw because the big one is too large. Who acts: Male fiddler crabs, crabs, big one. A sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/8/) [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/) / [Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/) / 8 # Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 8 Male fiddler crabs wave one giant claw to attract females and warn rivals, and they eat with the small claw because the big one is too large. **Who acts:** Male fiddler crabs, crabs, big one · **What happens:** wave, attract, warn, eat, be · **To what, where:** one giant claw, females, rivals This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Male fiddler crabs, crabs, big one), 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:8 # text = Male fiddler crabs wave one giant claw to attract females and warn rivals, and they eat with the small claw because the big one is too large. # 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 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 fiddler fiddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wave wave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **wave** | present | Male fiddler crabs | one giant claw | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | | 2 | **attract** | to-infinitive | Male fiddler crabs *not said here* | females | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | infinitive | Male fiddler crabs *not said here* | rivals | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient | | 4 | **eat** | present | crabs *= crab* | | | | | with the small claw | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the big one | | | | | large *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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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