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title: But real moles do not spring-clean with whitewash, real otters do no… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: But real moles do not spring-clean with whitewash, real otters do not chase May-flies, and real toads walk slowly to their ponds instead of driving cars into them. Who acts: real moles, real otters, real toads. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, t
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# The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 5

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But real moles do not spring-clean with whitewash, real otters do not chase May-flies, and real toads walk slowly to their ponds instead of driving cars into them.

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**Who acts:** real moles, real otters, real toads · **What happens:** not clean, not chase, walk, drive · **To what, where:** May flies, cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (real moles, real otters, real toads), 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:5
# text = But real moles do not spring-clean with whitewash, real otters do not chase May-flies, and real toads walk slowly to their ponds instead of driving cars into them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whitewash	whitewash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	31	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **clean** | present · do-support | real moles |  |  |  |  | with whitewash | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with whitewash=Instrument |
| 2 | **not** **chase** | present · do-support | real otters | May flies |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | present | real toads |  |  |  |  | to flies's ponds *result*; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pond=Result |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | real toads *not said here* | cars |  |  |  | into flies *= fly* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme into they=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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