--- title: Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathe… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking shark… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners. Who acts: you, black leathery pouch. A sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sharks by kind, small and strange: wal…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/) / 4 # Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 4 Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners. **Who acts:** you, black leathery pouch · **What happens:** picture, lie · **To what, where:** beach, seaweed This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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 (you, black leathery pouch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:4 # text = Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 leathery leathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a beach | | | after a storm | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | present | a black leathery pouch with curly corners | | | the seaweed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among seaweed=Location | 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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:4`. **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): 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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