--- title: A pleco sucking on the glass is scraping off algae (a green slimy gr… — The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the rig… · tree and pragmatics description: A pleco sucking on the glass is scraping off algae (a green slimy growth of tiny plant-like living things) with its sucker mouth, and some kinds of pleco grow much bigger than the shop said. Who acts: pleco, kinds, shop, tiny plant. 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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 (pleco, kinds, shop, tiny plant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:12 # text = A pleco sucking on the glass is scraping off algae (a green slimy growth of tiny plant-like living things) with its sucker mouth, and some kinds of pleco grow much bigger than the shop said. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pleco pleco NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 sucking suck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 scraping scrape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 slimy slimy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 pleco pleco NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 much much ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 37 than than SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **suck** | gerund | a pleco *not said here* | | | | | on the glass | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on glass=Patient | | 2 | **scrape off** | present · progressive | a pleco | algae | | | | with pleco's sucker mouth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with mouth=Instrument | | 3 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | some kinds of pleco | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the shop | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow** | | tiny plant | | | | | like living things | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent like=obl | 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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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