--- title: European eels swim thousands of kilometres to the Sargasso Sea to la… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: European eels swim thousands of kilometres to the Sargasso Sea to lay eggs, and the babies drift back on ocean currents; nobody has ever seen them lay eggs in the wild. Who acts: European eels, babies, nobody, thousands. A sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Migration: the great journeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/) / 12 # Migration: the great journeys, sentence 12 European eels swim thousands of kilometres to the Sargasso Sea to lay eggs, and the babies drift back on ocean currents; nobody has ever seen them lay eggs in the wild. **Who acts:** European eels, babies, nobody, thousands · **What happens:** swim, lay, drift back, see · **To what, where:** thousands, eggs, ocean currents, wild This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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 (European eels, babies, nobody, thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:12 # text = European eels swim thousands of kilometres to the Sargasso Sea to lay eggs, and the babies drift back on ocean currents; nobody has ever seen them lay eggs in the wild. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 054-migration-the-great-journeys.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 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Sargasso Sargasso PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 drift drift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 currents current NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **swim** | present | European eels | thousands of kilometres | | | | to the Sargasso Sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory | | 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | European eels *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **drift back** | present | the babies | | | ocean currents | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on current=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | present · perfect | nobody | thousands *= thousand* | | | ever | | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | infinitive | thousands *= thousand* *not said here* | eggs | | the wild | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in wild=Destination | 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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:12`. **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: [Migration: the great journeys, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/11/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)