The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 12
Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.
Who acts: sea shrimp · What happens: squirt, glow, confuse, make · To what, where: glowing cloud, hunter
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 (sea shrimp), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 shrimp | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sea | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 deep | punct |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrimp | compound |
| 5 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 squirt | nsubj |
| 6 | squirt | squirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 8 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 cloud | amod |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 squirt | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 confuse | mark |
| 11 | confuse | confuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 squirt | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hunter | det |
| 13 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 confuse | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ink | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 like | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 ink | case |
| 18 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ink | compound |
| 19 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloud | conj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 ink | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 light | case |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 squirt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squirt | present | some sea shrimp | a glowing cloud and squid ink | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | confuse | to-infinitive | some sea shrimp not said here | a hunter | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | some sea shrimp not said here | of light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:12.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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