--- title: In touch pools the rays' barbs are safely trimmed, and visitors stro… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: In touch pools the rays' barbs are safely trimmed, and visitors stroke them gently with two fingers so the animals are not hurt. Who acts: visitors. 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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 (visitors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:11 # text = In touch pools the rays' barbs are safely trimmed, and visitors stroke them gently with two fingers so the animals are not hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 barbs barb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 safely safely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 trimmed trim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stroke stroke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 gently gently ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trim** | present · passive | | the rays's barbs | | | | in touch pools; safely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in pool=Theme | | 2 | **stroke** | present | visitors | rays *= ray* | | | | with two fingers; gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with finger=Instrument | | 3 | **not** **hurt** | present · passive | | the animals | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:11`. **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 ×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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