--- title: Here a line of great white pelicans swims forward in a horseshoe, dr… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Here a line of great white pelicans swims forward in a horseshoe, drives fish into shallow water, then all the heads dip at once. Who acts: line, heads. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/2/) [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/) / [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/) / 2 # Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 2 Here a line of great white pelicans swims forward in a horseshoe, drives fish into shallow water, then all the heads dip at once. **Who acts:** line, heads · **What happens:** swim, drive, dip · **To what, where:** horseshoe, fish, shallow water This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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 (line, heads), 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:2 # text = Here a line of great white pelicans swims forward in a horseshoe, drives fish into shallow water, then all the heads dip at once. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pelicans pelican NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 forward forward ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 horseshoe horseshoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 14 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dip dip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **swim** | present | a line of great white pelicans | | | a horseshoe; here | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horseshoe=Trajectory | | 2 | **drive** | present | a line of great white pelicans *not said here* | fish | | shallow water | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into water=Trajectory | | 3 | **dip** | present | all heads | | | | then | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at once=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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, R5-strong ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/1/) - next →: [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/3/) - ↑ 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/)