Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones, sentence 4
A sea anemone looks like a flower but is an animal, a relative of jellyfish and corals, that catches small animals with stinging tentacles and pushes them into a mouth in its middle.
Who acts: sea anemone, animal · What happens: look, be, catch, sting, push · To what, where: animal, small animals, anemones, mouth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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 (sea anemone, animal), 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 | 3 anemone | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anemone | compound |
| 3 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 flower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 animal | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 animal | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 animal | det |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 relative | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 relative | det |
| 14 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 animal | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 jellyfish | case |
| 16 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 relative | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 corals | cc |
| 18 | corals | coral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 jellyfish | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 catches | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 catches | nsubj |
| 21 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 animal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 animals | amod |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 catches | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 tentacles | case |
| 25 | stinging | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 tentacles | amod |
| 26 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 catches | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pushes | cc |
| 28 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 catches | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pushes | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 mouth | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 mouth | det |
| 32 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pushes | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 middle | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 middle | nmod:poss |
| 35 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mouth | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a sea anemone | like a flower | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a sea anemone not said here | a animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | present | a animal | small animals | with stinging tentacles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | push | present | a animal not said here | anemones = anemone | a mouth in mouth's middle | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into mouth=Destination |
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:132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones.lesson:4.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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