--- title: The seashore is a harder home, because twice a day the tide goes out… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: The seashore is a harder home, because twice a day the tide goes out and leaves rockpool animals in sun, wind and beaks: limpets clamp down, anemones fold into blobs of jelly and crabs hide under weed. Who acts: seashore, tide, limpets, anemones. 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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 (seashore, tide, limpets, anemones), 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:2 # text = The seashore is a harder home, because twice a day the tide goes out and leaves rockpool animals in sun, wind and beaks: limpets clamp down, anemones fold into blobs of jelly and crabs hide under weed. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 seashore seashore NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 rockpool rockpool NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 limpets limpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 clamp clamp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 anemones anemone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fold fold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 33 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 blobs blob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nsubj 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the seashore | a harder home | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go out** | present | the tide | | | | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave** | present | the tide *not said here* | rockpool animals | | sun and wind and beaks | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in sun=Location | | 4 | **clamp down** | present | limpets | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **fold** | present | anemones | | | blobs of jelly and crabs | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hide** | present | anemones *not said here* | | | weed | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under weed=Location | 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:2`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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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