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title: Caddis fly larvae glue sand grains, tiny shells or plant bits togeth… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Caddis fly larvae glue sand grains, tiny shells or plant bits together with silk into a case they carry about, which protects their soft bodies from fish; an artist once gave them gold flakes and pearls and they made jewel cases. Who acts: fly larvae, grains, case, artist. A sentence of the lesson «
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# More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 5

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Caddis fly larvae glue sand grains, tiny shells or plant bits together with silk into a case they carry about, which protects their soft bodies from fish; an artist once gave them gold flakes and pearls and they made jewel cases.

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**Who acts:** fly larvae, grains, case, artist · **What happens:** glue, carry, protect, give, make · **To what, where:** sand grains, case, soft bodies, gold flakes, bodies, jewel cases

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (fly larvae, grains, case, artist), 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:5
# text = Caddis fly larvae glue sand grains, tiny shells or plant bits together with silk into a case they carry about, which protects their soft bodies from fish; an artist once gave them gold flakes and pearls and they made jewel cases.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Caddis	caddis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	larvae	larva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glue	glue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
37	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glue** | present | fly larvae | sand grains and tiny shells or plant bits |  | a case |  | with silk | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grain=Patient with silk=Instrument |
| 2 | **carry** | present | grains *= grain* | a case *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | present | a case | grains's soft bodies |  |  |  | from fish | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary from fish=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | a artist | gold flakes and pearls | bodies *= body* |  |  | once *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient flake=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | grains *= grain* | jewel cases |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset case=Product |

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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.

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**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 ×2, 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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