--- title: A pelican's pouch can hold about 10 litres of water; it drains the w… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics description: A pelican's pouch can hold about 10 litres of water; it drains the water out of the sides of the bill and swallows the fish, and pelicans do not fly about carrying fish in the pouch. Who acts: pouch, pelicans. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, stu --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 9 A pelican's pouch can hold about 10 litres of water; it drains the water out of the sides of the bill and swallows the fish, and pelicans do not fly about carrying fish in the pouch. **Who acts:** pouch, pelicans · **What happens:** hold, drain, swallow, not fly, carry · **To what, where:** 10 litres, water, sides, fish, pouch 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 (pouch, pelicans), 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:9 # text = A pelican's pouch can hold about 10 litres of water; it drains the water out of the sides of the bill and swallows the fish, and pelicans do not fly about carrying fish in the pouch. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pelican pelican NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 pelicans pelican NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 34 about about SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | can | a pelican's pouch | 10 litres of water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme | | 2 | **drain** | present | pouch | the water | | the sides of the bill | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme out side=Source | | 3 | **swallow** | present | pouch *not said here* | the fish | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 4 | **not** **fly** | present · do-support | pelicans | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | gerund | pelicans *not said here* | fish | | the pouch | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Value in pouch=Location | 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:9`. **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): no change. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/8/) - next →: [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/10/) - ↑ 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/)