--- title: The shoebill lives in swamps of eastern and central Africa, stands a… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: The shoebill lives in swamps of eastern and central Africa, stands about as tall as a ten-year-old and waits almost without moving before it lunges to grab fish such as lungfish. Who acts: shoebill. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/4/) [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/) / [Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/) / 4 # Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 4 The shoebill lives in swamps of eastern and central Africa, stands about as tall as a ten-year-old and waits almost without moving before it lunges to grab fish such as lungfish. **Who acts:** shoebill · **What happens:** live, stand, wait, move, lunge, grab · **To what, where:** swamps, fish This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (shoebill), 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:4 # text = The shoebill lives in swamps of eastern and central Africa, stands about as tall as a ten-year-old and waits almost without moving before it lunges to grab fish such as lungfish. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shoebill shoebill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 18 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl:unmarked 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 without without SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lunges lunge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp 33 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 lungfish lungfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 | **live** | present | the shoebill | | | swamps of eastern Africa | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | | 2 | **stand** | present | the shoebill *not said here* | | | | | tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | present | the shoebill *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | gerund | the shoebill *not said here* | | | | | almost *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lunge** | present | shoebill | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grab** | to-infinitive | shoebill *not said here* | fish | | | | such lungfish | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:4`. **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 ×3, 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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