--- title: Piranhas mostly eat fish, insects and plants; attacks on people are… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics description: Piranhas mostly eat fish, insects and plants; attacks on people are rare and usually just nips, and the "cow in seconds" legend grew from a staged show with starved piranhas seen by US president Theodore Roosevelt. Who acts: Piranhas, attacks, cow legend. 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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 (Piranhas, attacks, cow legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:11 # text = Piranhas mostly eat fish, insects and plants; attacks on people are rare and usually just nips, and the "cow in seconds" legend grew from a staged show with starved piranhas seen by US president Theodore Roosevelt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 nips nip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 27 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 staged stage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 starved starve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 president President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:desc _ _ 40 Theodore Theodore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Roosevelt Roosevelt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl:agent _ _ 42 . . 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 | **eat** | present | Piranhas | fish and insects and plants | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | attacks on people | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | past | the cow legend | | | | | from a staged show with starved piranhas | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from show=Patient | | 4 | **stage** | participle | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **starve** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | participle | | starved piranhas *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animals in the sea and the river, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/9/) - next →: [Animals in the sea and the river, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/)