--- title: The dam holds back the water like the plug in a bath, so the stream… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: The dam holds back the water like the plug in a bath, so the stream becomes a deep pond that does not freeze to the bottom in winter. Who acts: dam, stream, deep pond. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/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/) / [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/) / 2 # Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 2 The dam holds back the water like the plug in a bath, so the stream becomes a deep pond that does not freeze to the bottom in winter. **Who acts:** dam, stream, deep pond · **What happens:** hold back, become, not freeze · **To what, where:** water, deep pond This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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 (dam, stream, deep pond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:2 # text = The dam holds back the water like the plug in a bath, so the stream becomes a deep pond that does not freeze to the bottom in winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dam dam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 plug plug NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **hold back** | present | the dam | the water | | | | like the plug in a bath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 2 | **become** | present | the stream | a deep pond | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **freeze** | present · do-support | a deep pond | | | | winter | to the bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/1/) - next →: [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/)