--- title: On a park lawn a gull may stamp its feet up and down like a little d… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: On a park lawn a gull may stamp its feet up and down like a little dance; the drumming feels like rain to the worms, they come up, and the gull eats them. Who acts: gull, drumming, feet. 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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 (gull, drumming, feet), 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:1 # text = On a park lawn a gull may stamp its feet up and down like a little dance; the drumming feels like rain to the worms, they come up, and the gull eats them. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 stamp stamp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 drumming drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stamp** | may | a gull | gull's feet | | a park lawn | | like a little dance | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on lawn=Destination | | 2 | **feel** | present | the drumming | | | | | like rain to the worms | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like rain=Theme | | 3 | **come up** | present | feet *= foot* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | present | the gull | feet *= foot* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:1`. **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 ×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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