Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 13

Sea slugs called nudibranchs are bright to warn that they taste bad or sting, and some keep algae inside them and make food from sunlight.

Who acts: Sea slugs, slug, some · What happens: call, be, warn, taste, sting, keep · To what, where: nudibranchs, algae, food, sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sea slugs, slug, some), 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	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slugs	compound
2	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bright	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 slugs	acl
4	nudibranchs	nudibranch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	cop
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warn	mark
8	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bright	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 taste	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taste	nsubj
11	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warn	ccomp
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 taste	xcomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sting	cc
14	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taste	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 keep	nsubj
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	conj
19	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	conj
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 sunlight	case
26	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bright	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Sea slugs not said here	nudibranchs			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Sea slugs			bright property	tree rules
3	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	Sea slugs not said here				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	taste	present	slug			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	sting	present	slug not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	keep	present	some	algae		inside slug	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent alga=Theme inside they=Location
7	make	present	some not said here	food	sunlight		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/13/