Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 2
Down in the black deep sea a real anglerfish dangles a glowing lure lit by bacteria, and any small fish that swims up to the light ends up behind teeth that point inwards.
Who acts: real anglerfish, small fish, teeth · What happens: dangle, glow, lit, swim up, end up, point · To what, where: glowing lure, black deep sea, light, teeth
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 (real anglerfish, small fish, teeth), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 10 dangles | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sea | amod |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sea | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dangles | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 anglerfish | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anglerfish | amod |
| 9 | anglerfish | anglerfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dangles | nsubj |
| 10 | dangles | dangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lure | det |
| 12 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lure | amod |
| 13 | lure | lure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dangles | obj |
| 14 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lure | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bacteria | case |
| 16 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lit | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ends | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ends | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 fish | det |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ends | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 swims | nsubj |
| 23 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fish | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 swims | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 light | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 light | det |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swims | obl |
| 28 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dangles | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 ends | compound:prt |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 teeth | case |
| 31 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ends | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 point | nsubj |
| 33 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 34 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 33 point | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dangles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dangle | present | a real anglerfish | a glowing lure | the black deep sea | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lure=Theme in sea=Destination | ||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lit | participle | a glowing lure not said here | by bacteria | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swim up | present | any small fish | the light | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to light=Destination | ||||
| 5 | end up | present | any small fish | teeth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | point | present | teeth | inwards property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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