Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers, sentence 9

Pufferfish swallow water to swell into a ball too big to eat, and a male pufferfish draws beautiful circles in the sand on the sea floor to attract a female.

Who acts: Pufferfish, male pufferfish · What happens: swallow, swell, eat, draw, attract · To what, where: water, ball, beautiful circles, sand, female

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 (Pufferfish, male pufferfish), 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	Pufferfish	Pufferfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swallow	nsubj
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallow	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 swell	mark
5	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swallow	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swell	obl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ball	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 big	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 draws	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 draws	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pufferfish	det
16	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pufferfish	amod
17	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 draws	nsubj
18	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swell	conj
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 circles	amod
20	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 draws	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sand	det
23	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 draws	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 floor	compound
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sand	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 attract	mark
29	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 draws	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 female	det
31	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 attract	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swallow	present	Pufferfish	water		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	swell	to-infinitive	Pufferfish not said here		a ball	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	eat	to-infinitive	Pufferfish not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	present	a male pufferfish	beautiful circles	the sand on the sea floor	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme in sand=Destination
5	attract	to-infinitive	a male pufferfish not said here	a female		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient

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:9.

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 ×5, R6-punct-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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