Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 12

Anglerfish teeth point inwards so prey cannot escape, and their stomachs stretch so some can swallow prey bigger than themselves, because food is rare in the deep.

Who acts: Anglerfish teeth, prey, stomachs, some, food · What happens: point, not escape, stretch, swallow, be · To what, where: prey, deep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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 (Anglerfish teeth, prey, stomachs, some), 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	Anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teeth	compound
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 point	nsubj
3	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	3 point	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 escape	mark
6	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 escape	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 escape	advmod
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 point	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stretch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stretch	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stomachs	nmod:poss
13	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stretch	nsubj
14	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 point	conj
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 swallow	mark
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 swallow	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 swallow	aux
18	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stretch	advcl
19	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swallow	obj
20	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 prey	amod
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 themselves	case
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 bigger	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rare	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 rare	mark
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rare	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rare	cop
27	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 point	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 deep	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 deep	det
30	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rare	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 point	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	point	present	Anglerfish teeth			inwards property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not escape	can	prey				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch	present	teeth's stomachs				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	swallow	can	some	prey			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
5	is	present	food		the deep	rare property	tree rules

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:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:12.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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