--- title: Lobsters live on the sea floor, walk on thin legs and have ten legs… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Lobsters live on the sea floor, walk on thin legs and have ten legs in all, counting the two big claws; they cannot live long out of water, so a dance on the beach is impossible. Who acts: Lobsters, dance. 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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 (Lobsters, dance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:7 # text = Lobsters live on the sea floor, walk on thin legs and have ten legs in all, counting the two big claws; they cannot live long out of water, so a dance on the beach is impossible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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 1 Lobsters lobster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **live** | present | Lobsters | | | the sea floor | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | | 2 | **walk** | present | Lobsters *not said here* | | | thin legs | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | present | Lobsters *not said here* | ten legs | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **count** | gerund | Lobsters *not said here* | the two big claws | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | | 5 | **not** **live** | can | Lobsters *= lobster* | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | a dance on the beach | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | 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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:7`. **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. **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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