--- title: Some sharks and skates lay eggs in tough cases called mermaid's purs… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays · tree and pragmatics description: Some sharks and skates lay eggs in tough cases called mermaid's purses, and the baby grows inside for months, fed by a yolk. Who acts: sharks, tough cases, baby. 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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 (sharks, tough cases, baby), 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:16 # text = Some sharks and skates lay eggs in tough cases called mermaid's purses, and the baby grows inside for months, fed by a yolk. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 skates skate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 purses purse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 19 inside inside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 yolk yolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | some sharks and skates | eggs | | tough cases | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in case=Destination | | 2 | **call** | participle | tough cases *not said here* | mermaid's purses | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | present | the baby | | | | month | inside *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | participle | the baby *not said here* | | | | | by a yolk | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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