--- title: Salmon hatch in rivers, grow at sea, and return years later to the r… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: Salmon hatch in rivers, grow at sea, and return years later to the river where they hatched, finding it mainly by smell, which they learned when young and remember for years; Pacific salmon usually die after laying eggs. Who acts: Salmon, Pacific salmon. 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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 (Salmon, Pacific salmon), 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:8 # text = Salmon hatch in rivers, grow at sea, and return years later to the river where they hatched, finding it mainly by smell, which they learned when young and remember for years; Pacific salmon usually die after laying eggs. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Salmon salmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 31 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 Pacific Pacific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 38 salmon salmon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 39 usually usually ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 41 after after SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 43 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | present | Salmon | | | rivers | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | present | Salmon *not said here* | | | sea | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sea=Location | | 3 | **return** | infinitive | Salmon *not said here* | | | | | to the river *result*; late *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result | | 4 | **hatch** | past | Salmon | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **find** | gerund | Salmon *not said here* | sea | | | | by smell; mainly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **learn** | past | Salmon | smell | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 7 | **remember** | present | Salmon *not said here* | | | | year | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **die** | present | Pacific salmon | | | | | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 9 | **lay** | gerund | Pacific salmon *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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: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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/7/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)