--- title: A kingfisher dives from a branch to catch small fish and nests in a… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: A kingfisher dives from a branch to catch small fish and nests in a tunnel in the bank; a moorhen is a black water bird with a red beak; a dabchick is the little grebe, a small bird that dives for its food. Who acts: kingfisher, moorhen, dabchick, small bird. 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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 (kingfisher, moorhen, dabchick, small bird), 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:19 # text = A kingfisher dives from a branch to catch small fish and nests in a tunnel in the bank; a moorhen is a black water bird with a red beak; a dabchick is the little grebe, a small bird that dives for its food. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kingfisher kingfisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 moorhen moorhen NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dabchick dabchick NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 grebe grebe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:conj 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dive** | present | a kingfisher | | | a branch | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from branch=Location | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | a kingfisher *not said here* | small fish and nests | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a moorhen | a black water bird | | | | with a red beak | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a dabchick | the little grebe | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dive** | present | a small bird | | | | | for dabchick's food | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | 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:19`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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