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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 (teams, underwater microphones, numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:11 # text = Every few years teams sail the whole Yangtze and count porpoises by sight and with underwater microphones that hear their clicks, counting the same way each time to show if numbers go up or down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sail sail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 porpoises porpoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 underwater underwater ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 microphones microphone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 23 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod:unmarked 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp 34 up up ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 down down ADV RB _ 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **sail** | present | teams | the whole Yangtze | | | year | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yangtze=Theme | | 2 | **count** | present | teams *not said here* | porpoises | | | | by sight and underwater microphones | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | present | underwater microphones | teams's clicks | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus | | 4 | **count** | gerund | teams *not said here* | the same way | | | time | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | teams *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | numbers | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **click** | | teams *= team* | | | | | | nom click «event transitive»: poss=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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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