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title: Seahorses are fish, and male seahorses carry the eggs in a pouch and… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics
description: Seahorses are fish, and male seahorses carry the eggs in a pouch and give birth. Who acts: Seahorses, male seahorses. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 13

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Seahorses are fish, and male seahorses carry the eggs in a pouch and give birth.

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**Who acts:** Seahorses, male seahorses · **What happens:** be, carry, give · **To what, where:** fish, eggs, pouch, birth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (Seahorses, male seahorses), 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:13
# text = Seahorses are fish, and male seahorses carry the eggs in a pouch and give birth.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Seahorses | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | male seahorses | the eggs |  | a pouch |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location |
| 3 | **give** | present | male seahorses *not said here* | birth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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, 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/).

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