--- title: Gulls can drink sea water, because glands above their eyes take the… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: Gulls can drink sea water, because glands above their eyes take the salt out of their blood, and the salty water drips out of their nose. Who acts: Gulls, glands, salty water. A sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 2 Gulls can drink sea water, because glands above their eyes take the salt out of their blood, and the salty water drips out of their nose. **Who acts:** Gulls, glands, salty water · **What happens:** drink, take, drip · **To what, where:** sea water, salt, blood, nose 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, glands, salty water), 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:2 # text = Gulls can drink sea water, because glands above their eyes take the salt out of their blood, and the salty water drips out of their nose. # 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 Gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 above above ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 out out ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drips drip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **drink** | can | Gulls | sea water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | glands above glands's eyes | the salt | | glands's blood | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent salt=Theme out blood=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **drip** | present | the salty water | | | glands's nose | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nose=Location | 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:2`. **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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