--- title: A small Japanese pufferfish makes a round sand pattern about two met… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: A small Japanese pufferfish makes a round sand pattern about two metres wide with its fins; the male builds it to attract a female, and divers saw these circles for years before anyone knew who made them. Who acts: small Japanese pufferfish, male, divers, anyone. 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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 (small Japanese pufferfish, male, divers, anyone), 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:11 # text = A small Japanese pufferfish makes a round sand pattern about two metres wide with its fins; the male builds it to attract a female, and divers saw these circles for years before anyone knew who made them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pufferfish pufferfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 wide wide ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 divers diver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 36 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a small Japanese pufferfish | a round sand pattern two metres with pufferfish's fins | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pattern=Product | | 2 | **build** | present | the male | pufferfish | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | the male *not said here* | a female | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient | | 4 | **see** | past | divers | this circles | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer circle=Stimulus | | 5 | **know** | past | anyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **make** | past | | divers *= diver* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | 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:11`. **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. 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