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title: Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to ro… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas. Who acts: Sally crabs, bright red crabs. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 16

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Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.

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**Who acts:** Sally crabs, bright red crabs · **What happens:** be, leap, eat, pick · **To what, where:** bright red crabs, rock, algae, ticks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Sally crabs, bright red crabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:16
# text = Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Lightfoot	Lightfoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	leap	leap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
19	ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	marine	marine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	iguanas	iguana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sally crabs | bright red crabs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leap** | present | bright red crabs |  |  | rock |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory |
| 3 | **eat** | present | bright red crabs *not said here* | algae |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient |
| 4 | **pick** | present | bright red crabs *not said here* | ticks |  |  |  | off marine iguanas | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient |

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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.

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**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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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