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title: Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove t… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water · tree and pragmatics
description: Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it drips out of their nose. Who acts: Gulls, glands, gull. 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 pragm
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# Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 7

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Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it drips out of their nose.

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**Who acts:** Gulls, glands, gull · **What happens:** drink, remove, drip · **To what, where:** salt water, salt, nose

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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, gull), 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:7
# text = Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it 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): no change
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	salt	salt	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	remove	remove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drips	drip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | can | Gulls | salt water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 2 | **remove** | present | glands above glands's eyes | the salt |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme |
| 3 | **drip** | present | gull |  |  | glands's nose |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nose=Location |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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