Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 15
Pufferfish gulp water and swell into a spiky ball when scared, which makes them hard to swallow, and many contain a strong poison, so in Japan only specially trained cooks may prepare them.
Who acts: Pufferfish gulp water, turtles, many, trained cooks · What happens: swell, make, swallow, contain, train, prepare · To what, where: spiky ball, turtles, strong poison, Japan
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 (Pufferfish gulp water, turtles, many, trained cooks), 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 | Pufferfish | Pufferfish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 2 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | compound |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swell | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swell | cc |
| 5 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 8 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ball | amod |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swell | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 scared | mark |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swell | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 makes | nsubj |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swell | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 makes | obj |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 swallow | mark |
| 18 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hard | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 contain | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 contain | cc |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 contain | nsubj |
| 22 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 makes | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 poison | det |
| 24 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 poison | amod |
| 25 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contain | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 prepare | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 prepare | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Japan | case |
| 29 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 prepare | obl |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 cooks | advmod |
| 31 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 32 trained | advmod |
| 32 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 cooks | amod |
| 33 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 prepare | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 prepare | aux |
| 35 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swell | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 prepare | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | infinitive | Pufferfish gulp water | a spiky ball | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | present | turtles = turtle | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | turtles = turtle not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | contain | present | many | a strong poison | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poison=Theme | ||||
| 5 | train | participle | specially property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | prepare | may | trained cooks | turtles = turtle | Japan | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:15.
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 ×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.
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