The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 11

Comb jellies have rows of tiny beating hairs that break light into rainbow colours; they are not true jellyfish and have no stinging cells.

Who acts: Comb jellies, tiny beating hairs, jellies · What happens: have, break, not be · To what, where: rows, light, rainbow colours, true jellyfish, stinging cells

This is a sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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 (Comb jellies, tiny beating hairs, jellies), 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	Comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jellies	compound
2	jellies	jelly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 hairs	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hairs	amod
7	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hairs	compound
8	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rows	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 break	nsubj
10	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hairs	acl:relcl
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 colours	case
13	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colours	compound
14	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 jellyfish	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 jellyfish	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 jellyfish	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 jellyfish	advmod
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jellyfish	amod
20	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 jellyfish	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 cells	det
24	stinging	stinging	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cells	compound
25	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Comb jellies	rows of tiny beating hairs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient
2	break	present	tiny beating hairs	light	into rainbow colours result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=Patient into colour=Result
3	not is a	present	jellies = jelly	true jellyfish		tree rules
4	have	present	jellies = jelly not said here	no stinging cells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=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:175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-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.

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