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title: Animals plan their lives around the water: wildebeest must cross riv… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals plan their lives around the water: wildebeest must cross rivers to reach new grass, and Nile crocodiles wait at exactly those crossings, like someone waiting at the school gate who knows when the bell rings. Who acts: Animals, wildebeest, Nile crocodiles, school gate. A sentence of the lesso
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# Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 1

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Animals plan their lives around the water: wildebeest must cross rivers to reach new grass, and Nile crocodiles wait at exactly those crossings, like someone waiting at the school gate who knows when the bell rings.

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**Who acts:** Animals, wildebeest, Nile crocodiles, school gate, bell · **What happens:** plan, cross, reach, wait, know, ring · **To what, where:** lives, water, rivers, new grass, crossings, school gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (Animals, wildebeest, Nile crocodiles, school gate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:1
# text = Animals plan their lives around the water: wildebeest must cross rivers to reach new grass, and Nile crocodiles wait at exactly those crossings, like someone waiting at the school gate who knows when the bell rings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plan	plan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	crossings	crossing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
29	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **plan** | present | Animals | Animals's lives |  | the water |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
| 2 | **cross** | must | wildebeest | rivers |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | wildebeest *not said here* | new grass |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | present | Nile crocodiles |  |  | that crossings |  | like someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=Location |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  | the school gate |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |
| 6 | **know** | present | the school gate |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **ring** | present | the bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): 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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