--- title: A dragonfly has four wings that can each move on their own, so it ca… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: A dragonfly has four wings that can each move on their own, so it can hover, fly backwards and turn sharply; dragonfly-like insects have been around for over 300 million years. Who acts: dragonfly, four wings, like insects. 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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 (dragonfly, four wings, like insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:14 # text = A dragonfly has four wings that can each move on their own, so it can hover, fly backwards and turn sharply; dragonfly-like insects have been around for over 300 million years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.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): R2-punct-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 each each ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 hover hover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 19 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 backwards backward ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 23 sharply sharply ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 25 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 31 around around ADV RB _ 3 parataxis _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 over over ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 compound _ _ 35 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a dragonfly | four wings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 2 | **move** | can | four wings | | | wings's own | | each *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | | 3 | **hover** | can | dragonfly | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | infinitive | dragonfly *not said here* | | | | | backward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | infinitive | dragonfly *not said here* | | | | | sharply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present · perfect | like insects | | | | year | around *property* | tree rules | 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:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2. **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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