--- title: The tuskfish carries a clam in its mouth and smashes it on a rock, u… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: The tuskfish carries a clam in its mouth and smashes it on a rock, using the rock as an anvil. Who acts: tuskfish. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/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/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 9 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 9 The tuskfish carries a clam in its mouth and smashes it on a rock, using the rock as an anvil. **Who acts:** tuskfish · **What happens:** carry, smash, use · **To what, where:** clam, mouth, tuskfish, rock This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (tuskfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:9 # text = The tuskfish carries a clam in its mouth and smashes it on a rock, using the rock as an anvil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tuskfish tuskfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 clam clam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 smashes smash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 anvil anvil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **carry** | present | the tuskfish | a clam | | tuskfish's mouth | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clam=Value in mouth=Location | | 2 | **smash** | present | the tuskfish *not said here* | tuskfish | | a rock | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on rock=Destination | | 3 | **use** | gerund | the tuskfish *not said here* | the rock | | | | as a anvil | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rock=Duration as anvil=Attribute | 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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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): R5-strong ×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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