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title: In seahorses the mother puts her eggs into a pouch on the father's b… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics
description: In seahorses the mother puts her eggs into a pouch on the father's belly, and after a few weeks he pushes out the babies, sometimes hundreds or even over a thousand. Who acts: mother, father. A sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology course of Mova's pri
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# Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 6

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In seahorses the mother puts her eggs into a pouch on the father's belly, and after a few weeks he pushes out the babies, sometimes hundreds or even over a thousand.

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**Who acts:** mother, father · **What happens:** put, push out · **To what, where:** eggs, seahorses, babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (mother, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:6
# text = In seahorses the mother puts her eggs into a pouch on the father's belly, and after a few weeks he pushes out the babies, sometimes hundreds or even over a thousand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 049-babies.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | the mother | mother's eggs |  | seahorses |  | into a pouch on the father's belly | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in seahorse=Destination |
| 2 | **push out** | present | father | the babies |  |  | week |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |

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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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**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): no change. **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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