--- title: Look closely at a pond and you may see a tiny tube of stones walking… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Look closely at a pond and you may see a tiny tube of stones walking along the bottom: inside is a caddis fly larva wearing a house it glued together itself. Who acts: you, stones, caddis fly larva, larva. 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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 (you, stones, caddis fly larva, larva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:0 # text = Look closely at a pond and you may see a tiny tube of stones walking along the bottom: inside is a caddis fly larva wearing a house it glued together itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 closely closely ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 along along ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 inside inside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 caddis caddis NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 larva larva NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 26 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 glued glue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a pond; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pond=Theme | | 2 | **see** | may | you | a tiny tube of stones | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tube=Stimulus | | 3 | **walk** | gerund | stones *not said here* | | | the bottom | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory | | 4 | **be** | present | a caddis fly larva | | | | | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wear** | gerund | a caddis fly larva *not said here* | a house | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source | | 6 | **glue** | past | larva | larva | | | | together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:0`. **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. **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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