--- title: Great white pelicans fish as a team, driving fish into shallow water… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: Great white pelicans fish as a team, driving fish into shallow water and dipping their heads at the same moment; the rare Dalmatian pelican, the biggest pelican, also nests there. Who acts: Great white pelicans, rare Dalmatian pelican. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 8 Great white pelicans fish as a team, driving fish into shallow water and dipping their heads at the same moment; the rare Dalmatian pelican, the biggest pelican, also nests there. **Who acts:** Great white pelicans, rare Dalmatian pelican · **What happens:** fish, drive, dip, nest · **To what, where:** fish, shallow water, heads 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 (Great white pelicans, rare Dalmatian pelican), 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:8 # text = Great white pelicans fish as a team, driving fish into shallow water and dipping their heads at the same moment; the rare Dalmatian pelican, the biggest pelican, also nests there. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pelicans pelican NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fish fish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 Dalmatian dalmatian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 pelican pelican NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 pelican pelican NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 also also ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 nests nest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fish** | present | Great white pelicans | | | | | as a team | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drive** | gerund | 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** | gerund | Great white pelicans *not said here* | pelicans's heads | | | moment | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **nest** | present | the rare Dalmatian pelican | | | there | | | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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 ×1, 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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