Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 14

Lionfish have venomous spines and hunt small fish; where they have spread far from their home seas and few hunters eat them, divers hunt them and chefs cook them to help reefs.

Who acts: Lionfish, few hunters, divers, chefs · What happens: have, hunt, spread, eat, cook, help · To what, where: venomous spines, small fish, home seas, fish, reefs

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 (Lionfish, few hunters, divers, chefs), 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	Lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spines	amod
4	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hunt	cc
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunt	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 spread	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spread	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	aux
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 have	conj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 spread	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 seas	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 seas	nmod:poss
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seas	compound
18	seas	seas	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hunters	amod
21	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spread	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hunt	punct
25	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hunt	nsubj
26	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hunt	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cook	cc
29	chefs	chef	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cook	nsubj
30	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hunt	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cook	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cook	advcl
34	reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 help	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	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	have	present	Lionfish	venomous spines			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient
2	hunt	present	Lionfish not said here	small fish			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	spread	present · perfect	lionfish		fish's home seas	far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present	few hunters	fish			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	hunt	present	divers	fish			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	cook	present	chefs	fish			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	help	to-infinitive	chefs not said here	reefs			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reef=Beneficiary

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:14.

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 ×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.

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