--- title: At low tide beadlet anemones pull in their tentacles and become jell… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: At low tide beadlet anemones pull in their tentacles and become jelly blobs to keep moist; they sting prey with tiny harpoon cells, but too weakly to hurt a person's fingers. Who acts: beadlet anemones, hundreds. 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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 (beadlet anemones, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:13 # text = At low tide beadlet anemones pull in their tentacles and become jelly blobs to keep moist; they sting prey with tiny harpoon cells, but too weakly to hurt a person's fingers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 beadlet beadlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 anemones anemone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 11 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 blobs blob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 16 moist moist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sting sting VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 harpoon harpoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 weakly weakly ADV RB _ 19 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | beadlet anemones | | | | | in hundreds's tentacles; at low tide | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tide=Theme | | 2 | **become** | infinitive | beadlet anemones *not said here* | jelly blobs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | beadlet anemones *not said here* | | | | | moist *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sting** | present | hundreds *= hundred* | prey | | | | with tiny harpoon cells | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prey=Experiencer with cell=Instrument | | 5 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | hundreds *= hundred* *not said here* | a person's fingers | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | 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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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. 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