Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 4

Adult blue tangs are blue with black markings and a yellow tail, but young ones are bright yellow, and blue tangs can turn paler at night or when scared.

Who acts: Adult blue tangs, young ones, blue tangs · What happens: be, turn

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 (Adult blue tangs, young ones, blue tangs), 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	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tangs	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tangs	amod
3	tangs	tang	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blue	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	cop
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 markings	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 markings	amod
8	markings	marking	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blue	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tail	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tail	det
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tail	amod
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 markings	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 yellow	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 yellow	cc
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 yellow	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 yellow	cop
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 yellow	amod
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turn	cc
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tangs	amod
23	tangs	tang	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turn	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	aux
25	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 yellow	conj
26	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 turn	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 scared	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 scared	advmod
31	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 night	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Adult blue tangs		with black markings and a yellow tail; blue property	tree rules
2	is	present	young ones		yellow property	tree rules
3	turn	can	blue tangs	night	pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.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): 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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