Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 5

A blue tang has a sharp spine like a little knife near its tail that it can flick out to defend itself.

Who acts: blue tang, tail · What happens: have, flick out, defend · To what, where: sharp spine, tail

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 (blue tang, tail), 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 tang	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tang	amod
3	tang	tang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spine	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spine	amod
7	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 knife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knife	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knife	amod
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spine	nmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 tail	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knife	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 flick	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flick	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 flick	aux
18	flick	flick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tail	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 flick	compound:prt
20	to	to	PART	_	21 defend	mark
21	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 flick	advcl
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 defend	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a blue tang	a sharp spine	like a little knife near knife's tail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient
2	flick out	can	tail	knife's tail		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	defend	to-infinitive	tail not said here	tail		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

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:5.

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): 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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