--- title: In summer a dragonfly zooms past, snatching flies with its legs held… — The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, sw… · tree and pragmatics description: In summer a dragonfly zooms past, snatching flies with its legs held like a basket, and pond skaters run about on top of the water as if it were a trampoline. Who acts: dragonfly, pond skaters. 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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, pond skaters), 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:2 # text = In summer a dragonfly zooms past, snatching flies with its legs held like a basket, and pond skaters run about on top of the water as if it were a trampoline. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 zooms zoom VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 past past ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 snatching snatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 skaters skater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trampoline trampoline NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **zoom** | present | a dragonfly | | | | summer | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **snatch** | gerund | a dragonfly *not said here* | flies | | | | with dragonfly's legs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | participle | | dragonfly's legs *not said here* | | | | like a basket | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run about** | present | pond skaters | | | top of the water | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | | 5 | **is a** | past | dragonfly | a trampoline | | | | | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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