Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 2

Other reef animals win by tricks: a fake eye near the tail, a fish that swells into a spiky ball, an octopus that pretends to be a lionfish and then a sea snake.

Who acts: Other reef animals, fish, octopus · What happens: win, swell, pretend, be · To what, where: spiky ball, lionfish

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 (Other reef animals, fish, octopus), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	nsubj
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 tricks	case
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 eye	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eye	amod
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	appos
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 tail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tail	det
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eye	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fish	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 swells	nsubj
18	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fish	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 ball	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ball	det
21	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ball	amod
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swells	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 octopus	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 octopus	det
25	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricks	appos
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 pretends	nsubj
27	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 octopus	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	31 lionfish	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 lionfish	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lionfish	det
31	lionfish	lionfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pretends	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 snake	cc
33	then	then	ADV	_	36 snake	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 snake	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 snake	compound
36	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lionfish	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 win	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	win	present	Other reef animals			by tricks	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swell	present	a fish		a spiky ball		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	pretend	present	a octopus				tree rules
4	is a	to-infinitive	a octopus not said here	a lionfish and a sea snake			tree rules

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:2.

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): no change. 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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