--- title: Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island march f… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island march from the forest to the sea to lay eggs, when the rains come and the moon is right; people close roads and build crab bridges for them. Who acts: tens, rains, moon, people. 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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 (tens, rains, moon, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:8 # text = Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island march from the forest to the sea to lay eggs, when the rains come and the moon is right; people close roads and build crab bridges for them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound 12 march March VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 35 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | present | tens of millions of red crabs Christmas Island | | | the forest | year | to the sea *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result | | 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | tens of millions of red crabs Christmas Island *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **come** | present | the rains | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the moon | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **close** | present | people | roads | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 6 | **build** | present | people *not said here* | crab bridges | | | | for People | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bridge=Product for they=Asset | 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. 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