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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 (Wobbegongs, divers), 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:9 # text = Wobbegongs are calm but will bite if stepped on or poked, and they can hold on tight; divers should look but never touch. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wobbegongs wobbegong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 poked poke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 17 on on ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 tight tight ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 divers diver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Wobbegongs | | | | | calm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bite** | future | Wobbegongs *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **step on** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | Wobbegongs *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **poke** | participle | Wobbegongs *not said here* | | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold on** | can | Wobbegongs *= wobbegong* | | | | | tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **look** | should | divers | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | divers *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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