--- title: A weever fish buried in the sand feels him coming and swims off inst… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics description: A weever fish buried in the sand feels him coming and swims off instead of stinging him. Who acts: weever fish, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Safe at lakes and beaches](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/) / 7 # Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 7 A weever fish buried in the sand feels him coming and swims off instead of stinging him. **Who acts:** weever fish, boy · **What happens:** bury, feel, come, swim off, sting · **To what, where:** weever fish, sand, boy This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday 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 (weever fish, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:7 # text = A weever fish buried in the sand feels him coming and swims off instead of stinging him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 232-lakes-and-beaches.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 weever weever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 16 mark _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | participle | | a weever fish *not said here* | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | | 2 | **feel** | present | a weever fish | boy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swim off** | present | a weever fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sting** | gerund | boy *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | 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:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Safe at lakes and beaches, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/6/) - next →: [Safe at lakes and beaches, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/)