--- title: The water is full of tall tales like that: whales are fish, every sh… — Animals in the sea and the river · tree and pragmatics description: The water is full of tall tales like that: whales are fish, every shark dies if it stops, piranhas strip a cow in seconds, and a jellyfish sting is cured with wee, which comes from a TV comedy, not a lifeguard. Who acts: water, whales, shark, piranhas. 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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 (water, whales, shark, piranhas), 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:3 # text = The water is full of tall tales like that: whales are fish, every shark dies if it stops, piranhas strip a cow in seconds, and a jellyfish sting is cured with wee, which comes from a TV comedy, not a lifeguard. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 strip strip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 comedy comedy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lifeguard lifeguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the water | | | | | of tall tales like that and fish; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | whales | fish | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | present | every shark | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | shark | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **strip** | present | piranhas | a cow | | | second | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | | 6 | **cure** | present · passive | | a jellyfish sting | | | | with wee | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | | 7 | **come** | present | wee | | | a TV comedy | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from comedy=Initial\_Location | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/2/) - next →: [Animals in the sea and the river, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/11-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river/)