--- title: Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside. Who acts: Gulls, grey, people, some. 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 tr --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 5 Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside. **Who acts:** Gulls, grey, people, some · **What happens:** be, learn, carry, snatch · **To what, where:** food, chips, seaside 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, grey, people, some), 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:5 # text = Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 snatch snatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sandwiches sandwich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 seaside seaside NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gulls | | | | | bold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Gulls *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | present | grey | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **carry** | present | people | food | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **snatch** | present | some | chips and sandwiches | | the seaside | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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