Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 8
Many reef fish have a false eye spot near the tail, so a hunter strikes at the wrong end while the fish darts away.
Who acts: Many reef fish, hunter, fish · What happens: have, strike, dart away · To what, where: false eye spot, tail
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 (Many reef fish, hunter, fish), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 2 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | compound |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spot | compound |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tail | det |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spot | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strikes | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 strikes | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunter | det |
| 15 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strikes | nsubj |
| 16 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 19 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strikes | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 darts | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fish | det |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 darts | nsubj |
| 24 | darts | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 strikes | advcl |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 darts | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many reef fish | a false eye spot | the tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | |||
| 2 | strike | present | a hunter | at the wrong end | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at end=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dart away | present | the fish | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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 ×3, 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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