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title: Water voles eat grasses, reeds and other waterside plants, not fish,… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Water voles eat grasses, reeds and other waterside plants, not fish, and they dig burrows in the bank with some entrances under the water, so they can slip away with a «plop». Who acts: Water voles, grasses. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the 
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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 8

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Water voles eat grasses, reeds and other waterside plants, not fish, and they dig burrows in the bank with some entrances under the water, so they can slip away with a «plop».

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**Who acts:** Water voles, grasses · **What happens:** eat, dig, slip away · **To what, where:** grasses, burrows, bank

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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 (Water voles, grasses), 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:8
# text = Water voles eat grasses, reeds and other waterside plants, not fish, and they dig burrows in the bank with some entrances under the water, so they can slip away with a «plop».
# 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	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	voles	vole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	waterside	waterside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	plop	plop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Water voles | grasses and reeds and other waterside plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 2 | **dig** | present | grasses *= grass* | burrows |  | the bank |  | with some entrances under the water | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme with entrance=Instrument |
| 3 | **slip away** | can | grasses *= grass* |  |  |  |  | with a plop; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:8`.

**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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