--- title: Seahorses are fish that swim upright and grip seaweed with curly tai… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: Seahorses are fish that swim upright and grip seaweed with curly tails; the male carries the eggs in a pouch until the babies hatch. Who acts: Seahorses, fish, male, babies. 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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 (Seahorses, fish, male, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:14 # text = Seahorses are fish that swim upright and grip seaweed with curly tails; the male carries the eggs in a pouch until the babies hatch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): no change 1 Seahorses seahorse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 upright upright ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pouch pouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Seahorses | fish | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | present | fish | | | | | upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grip** | present | fish *not said here* | seaweed | | | | with curly tails | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent seaweed=Experiencer with tail=Instrument | | 4 | **carry** | present | the male | the eggs | | a pouch | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location | | 5 | **hatch** | present | the babies | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/13/) - next →: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/)