Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 10
Groupers shake their heads at moray eels to invite them to hunt together; the eel goes into cracks and the grouper catches fish that flee into open water.
Who acts: Groupers, heads, eel, grouper, fish · What happens: shake, invite, hunt, go, catch, flee · To what, where: heads, moray eels, cracks, fish, open water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 (Groupers, heads, eel, grouper), 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 | Groupers | grouper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shake | nsubj |
| 2 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heads | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shake | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 eels | case |
| 6 | moray | moray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eels | compound |
| 7 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shake | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 invite | mark |
| 9 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shake | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invite | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hunt | mark |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invite | xcomp |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 hunt | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 goes | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eel | det |
| 16 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 goes | nsubj |
| 17 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shake | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 cracks | case |
| 19 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 goes | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 catches | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grouper | det |
| 22 | grouper | grouper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 catches | nsubj |
| 23 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 goes | conj |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 catches | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 flee | nsubj |
| 26 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fish | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 water | amod |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flee | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | Groupers | Groupers's heads | moray eels | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at eel=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | Groupers not said here | heads = head | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | heads = head not said here | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | present | the eel | cracks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into crack=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | catch | present | the grouper | fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 6 | flee | present | fish | open water | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location |
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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.lesson:10.
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 ×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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