Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 12

Green turtles visit cleaning stations where fish pick algae off their shells, and as adults they eat plants, which gives their fat a green colour.

Who acts: Green turtles, fish, plants · What happens: visit, pick, eat, give · To what, where: cleaning stations, algae, plants, green colour, fat

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 (Green turtles, fish, plants), 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	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turtles	amod
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cleaning	clean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stations	compound
5	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 pick	advmod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	nsubj
8	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stations	acl:relcl
9	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 shells	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shells	nmod:poss
12	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 visit	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 adults	case
16	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 visit	conj
19	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gives	nsubj
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 plants	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fat	nmod:poss
24	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 colour	det
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 colour	amod
27	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 visit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Green turtles	cleaning stations			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Co-Agent
2	pick	present	fish	algae		off fish's shells	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient
3	eat	present	fish	plants		as adults	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
4	give	present	plants	a green colour	fish's fat		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fat=Recipient colour=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:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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