--- title: Other teams are made of two different kinds of animal: a little clea… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Other teams are made of two different kinds of animal: a little cleaner fish picks parasites off a big fish, and a bird rides a buffalo eating its ticks; both sides gain something. Who acts: cleaner fish, bird, sides, fish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cleaner fish, bird, sides, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:3 # text = Other teams are made of two different kinds of animal: a little cleaner fish picks parasites off a big fish, and a bird rides a buffalo eating its ticks; both sides gain something. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 parasites parasite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rides ride VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **make** | present · passive | | Other teams | | | | of two different kinds of animal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **pick** | present | a cleaner fish | parasites | | | | off a big fish | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Patient | | 3 | **ride** | present | a bird | a buffalo | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | a bird *not said here* | fish's ticks | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | | 5 | **gain** | present | both sides | something | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 6 | **tick** | | fish | | | | | | nom tick «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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