--- title: Ancient sturgeons with bony plates swim up the Danube, and small big… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Ancient sturgeons with bony plates swim up the Danube, and small big-headed gobies cling to rocks with a sucker; gobies even travelled in ships' water tanks to America's Great Lakes. Who acts: Ancient sturgeons, small headed 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 (Ancient sturgeons, small headed 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:5 # text = Ancient sturgeons with bony plates swim up the Danube, and small big-headed gobies cling to rocks with a sucker; gobies even travelled in ships' water tanks to America's Great Lakes. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sturgeons sturgeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Danube Danube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 headed head ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 gobies goby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cling cling VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 gobies goby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ' 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Lakes lake PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 up** | present | Ancient sturgeons with bony plates | the Danube | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cling** | present | small headed gobies | | | | | to rocks; with a sucker | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rock=Co-Theme | | 3 | **travel** | past | gobies | | America's Great Lakes | ships's water tanks | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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