--- title: Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big em… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big empty shell. Who acts: you, hermit crabs. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/5/) [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/) / [Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sna…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/) / 5 # Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 5 Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big empty shell. **Who acts:** you, hermit crabs · **What happens:** picture, line up · **To what, where:** beach, one big empty shell This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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, hermit crabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:5 # text = Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big empty shell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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, R8-pos-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 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 5 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 7 line line VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 beside beside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a beach | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | | 2 | **line up** | present | hermit crabs | | | one big empty shell | | by size | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | 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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:5`. **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, 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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