--- title: A gull stamps its feet on grass to imitate rain, which makes worms c… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics description: A gull stamps its feet on grass to imitate rain, which makes worms come up to the surface where the gull can catch them. Who acts: gull, rain, worms. 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 an --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 6 A gull stamps its feet on grass to imitate rain, which makes worms come up to the surface where the gull can catch them. **Who acts:** gull, rain, worms · **What happens:** stamp, imitate, make, come up, catch · **To what, where:** feet, grass, rain, worms, surface 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 (gull, rain, worms), 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:6 # text = A gull stamps its feet on grass to imitate rain, which makes worms come up to the surface where the gull can catch 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stamps stamp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 imitate imitate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gull gull NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **stamp** | present | a gull | gull's feet | | grass | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on grass=Destination | | 2 | **imitate** | to-infinitive | a gull *not said here* | rain | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | rain | worms | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come up** | infinitive | worms *not said here* | | | the surface | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **catch** | can | the gull | worms *= worm* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:6`. **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): no change. **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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