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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 (Male footed boobies, brighter blue feet, females), 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:9 # text = Male blue-footed boobies show off their blue feet in a dance, and brighter blue feet show a healthy, well-fed bird that females prefer. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 footed foot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 boobies booby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 21 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 28 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **show off** | present | Male footed boobies | boobies's blue feet | | | | in a dance | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Patient in dance=Topic | | 2 | **show** | present | brighter blue feet | | a healthy fed bird | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | | 3 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **prefer** | present | females | a healthy fed bird | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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