--- title: But every odd part is a tool: the star feels for worms in the dark,… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: But every odd part is a tool: the star feels for worms in the dark, the big nose warms freezing air, the scales are armour and the slime chokes a shark's gills. Who acts: odd part, star, big nose, scales. 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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 (odd part, star, big nose, scales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:1 # text = But every odd part is a tool: the star feels for worms in the dark, the big nose warms freezing air, the scales are armour and the slime chokes a shark's gills. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 3 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 freezing freeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 chokes choke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 a** | present | every odd part | a tool | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | the star | | | the dark | | for worms | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme in dark=Location | | 3 | **warm** | present | the big nose | freezing air | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 4 | **freeze** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | the scales | armour | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **choke** | present | the slime | a shark's gills | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gill=Destination | 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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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