--- title: Ships carry water in tanks to keep steady when lightly loaded, and r… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Ships carry water in tanks to keep steady when lightly loaded, and round gobies travelled in these tanks to faraway ports and spread into the Great Lakes of North America, where they eat local fish eggs and push local fish out. Who acts: Ships, round gobies, gobies. 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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 (Ships, round gobies, gobies), 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:19 # text = Ships carry water in tanks to keep steady when lightly loaded, and round gobies travelled in these tanks to faraway ports and spread into the Great Lakes of North America, where they eat local fish eggs and push local fish out. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 10 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 loaded load VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 14 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 gobies goby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 faraway faraway ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 24 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Lakes lake PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 36 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc 40 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 41 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **carry** | present | Ships | water | | tanks | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in tank=Location | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Ships *not said here* | | | | | steady *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **load** | participle | Ships *not said here* | | | | | lightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **travel** | past | round gobies | | | this tanks | | to faraway ports | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Trajectory | | 5 | **spread** | past | round gobies *not said here* | | | the Great Lakes of North America | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination | | 6 | **eat** | present | gobies *= goby* | local fish eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 7 | **push out** | present | gobies *= goby* *not said here* | local fish | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/18/) - next →: [White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/)