Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 11

The trumpetfish hides by swimming glued to the side of a larger harmless fish, and it also hangs head down among soft corals looking like one more stick.

Who acts: trumpetfish, soft corals · What happens: hide, swim, glue, hang, look · To what, where: head, soft corals

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 (trumpetfish, soft corals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trumpetfish	det
2	trumpetfish	trumpetfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hides	nsubj
3	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 swimming	mark
5	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hides	advcl
6	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 swimming	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glued	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 fish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fish	det
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 fish	amod
13	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hangs	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hangs	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hangs	nsubj
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 hangs	advmod
19	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hides	conj
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hangs	obj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 head	advmod
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 corals	case
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 corals	amod
24	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hangs	obl
25	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 corals	acl
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 stick	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 stick	nummod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 stick	amod
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hides	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	the trumpetfish				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swim	gerund	the trumpetfish not said here				tree rules
3	glue	participle	the trumpetfish not said here			to the side of a larger harmless fish	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to side=Co-Patient
4	hang	present	trumpetfish	head	soft corals		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme among coral=Destination
5	look	gerund	soft corals not said here			like one more stick	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:11.

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. 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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