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title: In seahorses the female puts her eggs into the male's belly pouch an… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: In seahorses the female puts her eggs into the male's belly pouch and the father gives birth, sometimes to over a thousand babies at a time. Who acts: female, father. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 18

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In seahorses the female puts her eggs into the male's belly pouch and the father gives birth, sometimes to over a thousand babies at a time.

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**Who acts:** female, father · **What happens:** put, give · **To what, where:** eggs, seahorses, birth, thousand babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 (female, father), 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:18
# text = In seahorses the female puts her eggs into the male's belly pouch and the father gives birth, sometimes to over a thousand babies at a time.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	female	female	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	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | the female | female's eggs |  | seahorses |  | into the male's belly pouch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in seahorse=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | the father | birth | thousand babies at a time |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to baby=Recipient |

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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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:18`.

**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/).

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