--- title: Beavers have no hammer or nails: they push sticks into the mud botto… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: Beavers have no hammer or nails: they push sticks into the mud bottom, pile them up and plaster them with mud carried against their chests. Who acts: Beavers, hammer. 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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 (Beavers, hammer), 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:8 # text = Beavers have no hammer or nails: they push sticks into the mud bottom, pile them up and plaster them with mud carried against their chests. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 pile pile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 plaster plaster VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 chests chest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **have** | present | Beavers | no hammer or nails | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Patient | | 2 | **push** | present | hammer | sticks | | the mud bottom | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into bottom=Destination | | 3 | **pile up** | present | hammer *not said here* | sticks *= stick* | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | | 4 | **plaster** | present | hammer *not said here* | sticks *= stick* | | | | with mud | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with mud=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | participle | | mud *not said here* | | | | against sticks's chests | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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