--- title: A pelican has four toes on each foot, all joined by webbing, while a… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: A pelican has four toes on each foot, all joined by webbing, while a duck has three webbed toes and one free toe; pelicans take off by running along the water slapping these big feet. Who acts: pelican, webbing, duck, pelicans. 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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 (pelican, webbing, duck, pelicans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:10 # text = A pelican has four toes on each foot, all joined by webbing, while a duck has three webbed toes and one free toe; pelicans take off by running along the water slapping these big feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pelican pelican 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 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 webbing webbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 webbed web VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 27 pelicans pelican NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 along along ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 slapping slap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 36 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 pelican | four toes | | each foot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **join** | participle · passive | webbing | all | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | a duck | three webbed toes and one free toe | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 4 | **web** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take off** | present | pelicans | | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **run** | gerund | pelicans *not said here* | | | the water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along water=Trajectory | | 7 | **slap** | gerund | pelicans *not said here* | this big feet | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | 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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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