Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 3
Bright colours on a reef often mean the opposite of hiding: a glowing sea slug or a lionfish with spread fins is saying keep away, I taste bad or I sting.
Who acts: Bright colours, opposite, glowing sea slug, I · What happens: mean, hide, glow, say, keep away, taste · To what, where: opposite · 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 (Bright colours, opposite, glowing sea slug, I), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colours | amod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 reef | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reef | det |
| 5 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colours | nmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 opposite | det |
| 9 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 hiding | mark |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 opposite | acl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 slug | det |
| 14 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 slug | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slug | compound |
| 16 | slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saying | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lionfish | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lionfish | det |
| 19 | lionfish | lionfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slug | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fins | case |
| 21 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fins | compound |
| 22 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lionfish | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 saying | aux |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 mean | parataxis |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 saying | ccomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 keep | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taste | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 taste | nsubj |
| 29 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | parataxis |
| 30 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 taste | xcomp |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sting | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 sting | nsubj |
| 33 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 taste | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Bright colours on a reef | the opposite | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | |||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the opposite not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | a glowing sea slug or a lionfish with spread fins | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep away | infinitive | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | taste | present | I | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | sting | present | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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