--- title: The shoebill is a huge bird with a beak like a shoe that stands stil… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics description: The shoebill is a huge bird with a beak like a shoe that stands still for hours waiting for lungfish to come up to breathe, and it clatters its beak loudly. Who acts: shoebill, shoe. 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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 (shoebill, shoe), 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:10 # text = The shoebill is a huge bird with a beak like a shoe that stands still for hours waiting for lungfish to come up to breathe, and it clatters its beak loudly. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shoebill shoebill NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 18 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 lungfish lungfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 23 up up PART RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 clatters clatter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the shoebill | a huge bird | | | | with a beak like a shoe | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | present | a shoe | | | | still; hour | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | a shoe *not said here* | | | | | for lungfish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come up** | to-infinitive | a shoe *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | a shoe *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **clatter** | present | shoebill | shoebill's beak | | | | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme | 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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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