The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 13

A starfish pushes its stomach out of its body onto its food and digests the food outside; many Antarctic starfish are big and live for many years.

Who acts: starfish, many Antarctic starfish · What happens: push, digest, be, live · To what, where: stomach, body, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (starfish, many Antarctic starfish), 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	2 starfish	det
2	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stomach	nmod:poss
5	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 body	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stomach	nmod
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 digests	cc
14	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pushes	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 digests	obj
17	outside	outside	ADV	_	14 digests	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 starfish	punct
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 starfish	amod
20	Antarctic	Antarctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 starfish	amod
21	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 big	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 big	cop
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pushes	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
25	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 big	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 years	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a starfish	starfish's stomach	starfish's body		onto starfish's food	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme onto food=Destination out body=Initial_Location
2	digest	present	a starfish not said here	the food			outside property	tree rules
3	is	present	many Antarctic starfish				big property	tree rules
4	live	present	many Antarctic starfish not said here			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP 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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:13.

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 ×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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