Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 6

A gull stamps its feet on grass to imitate rain, which makes worms come up to the surface where the gull can catch them.

Who acts: gull, rain, worms · What happens: stamp, imitate, make, come up, catch · To what, where: feet, grass, rain, worms, surface

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology 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 (gull, rain, worms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gull	det
2	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stamps	nsubj
3	stamps	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stamps	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 grass	case
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stamps	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 imitate	mark
9	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stamps	advcl
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imitate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rain	acl:relcl
14	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 makes	obj
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 makes	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 come	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 surface	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 surface	det
19	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 catch	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gull	det
22	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 catch	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 catch	aux
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 surface	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 catch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stamps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stamp	present	a gull	gull's feet	grass	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on grass=Destination
2	imitate	to-infinitive	a gull not said here	rain		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme
3	make	present	rain	worms		tree rules
4	come up	infinitive	worms not said here		the surface	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
5	catch	can	the gull	worms = worm		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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, 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:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:6.

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.

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