--- title: The leafy seadragon has leaf-shaped flaps all over its body and drif… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics description: The leafy seadragon has leaf-shaped flaps all over its body and drifts slowly among seaweed, and seadragon fathers carry the eggs on their tails until they hatch. Who acts: leafy seadragon, seadragon fathers, fathers. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) / 4 # Masters of camouflage, sentence 4 The leafy seadragon has leaf-shaped flaps all over its body and drifts slowly among seaweed, and seadragon fathers carry the eggs on their tails until they hatch. **Who acts:** leafy seadragon, seadragon fathers, fathers · **What happens:** have, shape, drift, carry, hatch · **To what, where:** shaped flaps, body, seaweed, eggs, tails This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (leafy seadragon, seadragon fathers, fathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:4 # text = The leafy seadragon has leaf-shaped flaps all over its body and drifts slowly among seaweed, and seadragon fathers carry the eggs on their tails until they hatch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 189-masters-of-camouflage.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 leafy leafy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 seadragon seadragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 drifts drift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 16 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 seadragon seadragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 28 until until SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | the leafy seadragon | shaped flaps | | seadragon's body | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **drift** | present | the leafy seadragon *not said here* | | | seaweed | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among seaweed=Trajectory | | 4 | **carry** | present | seadragon fathers | the eggs | | fathers's tails | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 5 | **hatch** | present | fathers *= father* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:4`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Masters of camouflage, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/2/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/)