--- title: Crabs and other rock-pool creatures pinch to defend themselves; look… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: Crabs and other rock-pool creatures pinch to defend themselves; look and let them be. Who acts: Crabs, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/36/) [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/) / [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/) / 36 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 36 Crabs and other rock-pool creatures pinch to defend themselves; look and let them be. **Who acts:** Crabs, animals · **What happens:** pinch, defend, look, let, be · **To what, where:** animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (Crabs, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:36 # text = Crabs and other rock-pool creatures pinch to defend themselves; look and let them be. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 pinch pinch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pinch** | present | Crabs and other pool creatures | | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **defend** | to-infinitive | Crabs and other pool creatures *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | animals *= animal* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:36`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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