--- title: Anyone who has eaten chips on a seaside promenade knows the gull tha… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: Anyone who has eaten chips on a seaside promenade knows the gull that swoops down and snatches one right out of a child's hand: gulls are bold and clever, and they have learned that people carry food. Who acts: Anyone, gull, gulls, chips. 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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 (Anyone, gull, gulls, chips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:0 # text = Anyone who has eaten chips on a seaside promenade knows the gull that swoops down and snatches one right out of a child's hand: gulls are bold and clever, and they have learned that people carry food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 seaside seaside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod 9 promenade promenade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swoops swoop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 snatches snatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 right right ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | | chips | | a seaside promenade | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Patient | | 2 | **know** | present | Anyone | the gull | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer gull=Stimulus | | 3 | **swoop down** | present | the gull | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **snatch** | present | the gull *not said here* | one | | a child's hand | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme out hand=Source | | 5 | **is** | present | gulls | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | gulls *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **learn** | present · perfect | chips *= chip* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **carry** | present | people | food | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:0`. **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): 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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