--- title: Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs. Who acts: Gulls, tractor, ploughing. A sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/12/) [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/) / [Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/) / 12 # Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 12 Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs. **Who acts:** Gulls, tractor, ploughing · **What happens:** follow, plough, turn up · **To what, where:** tractor, field, worms This is a sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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 (Gulls, tractor, ploughing), 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:12 # text = Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tractor tractor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ploughing plough VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 ploughing plough NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Gulls | a tractor | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tractor=Theme | | 2 | **plough** | gerund | a tractor *not said here* | a field | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **turn up** | present | ploughing | worms and grubs | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location worm=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: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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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