--- title: An otter's home in the river bank is called a holt; otters mostly ea… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: An otter's home in the river bank is called a holt; otters mostly eat fish and eels, and also frogs and crayfish, and they mark their stretch of river with droppings called spraints. Who acts: otters, eyes, droppings. 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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 (otters, eyes, droppings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:14 # text = An otter's home in the river bank is called a holt; otters mostly eat fish and eels, and also frogs and crayfish, and they mark their stretch of river with droppings called spraints. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 holt holt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 crayfish crayfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 stretch stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 36 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 spraints spraint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | a otter's home in the river bank | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **eat** | present | otters | fish and eels and frogs and crayfish | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 3 | **mark** | present | eyes *= eye* | eyes's stretch of river | | | | with droppings | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent stretch=Destination with dropping=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | droppings *not said here* | spraints | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:14`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The real animals of the river bank: th…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/13/) - next →: [The real animals of the river bank: th…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/)