--- title: A male stickleback glues weed together with a sticky thread from his… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: A male stickleback glues weed together with a sticky thread from his kidneys, turns red in spring, guards the eggs and fans water over them to give them oxygen. Who acts: male stickleback. 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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 (male stickleback), 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:12 # text = A male stickleback glues weed together with a sticky thread from his kidneys, turns red in spring, guards the eggs and fans water over them to give them oxygen. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stickleback stickleback NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 glues glue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 kidneys kidney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 fans fan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glue** | present | a male stickleback | weed | | | | with a sticky thread from stickleback's kidneys; together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent weed=Patient with thread=Instrument | | 2 | **turn** | present | a male stickleback *not said here* | | | | spring | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **guard** | present | a male stickleback *not said here* | the eggs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | | 4 | **fan** | present | a male stickleback *not said here* | water | | | | over eggs *= egg* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | a male stickleback *not said here* | oxygen | eggs *= egg* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient oxygen=Theme | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-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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