--- title: Gobies are small bottom fish of the Black and Azov seas whose front… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Gobies are small bottom fish of the Black and Azov seas whose front belly fins form a sucker; Berdiansk has a monument to the goby, the Goby Breadwinner, that fed people in hard years. Who acts: Gobies, front belly fins, Berdiansk, Goby Breadwinner. 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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 (Gobies, front belly fins, Berdiansk, Goby Breadwinner), 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:18 # text = Gobies are small bottom fish of the Black and Azov seas whose front belly fins form a sucker; Berdiansk has a monument to the goby, the Goby Breadwinner, that fed people in hard years. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gobies goby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 8 Black Black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Azov Azov PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 12 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Berdiansk Berdiansk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 monument monument NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 goby goby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Goby Goby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Breadwinner breadwinner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Gobies | small bottom fish | | | | the Black seas *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **form** | present | front belly fins | a sucker | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sucker=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Berdiansk | a monument | | | | to the goby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monument=Patient | | 4 | **feed** | past | the Goby Breadwinner | | people | | year | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | 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:18`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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