The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 14

A siphonophore looks like one long jellyfish but is a chain of many tiny animals living together, and some are longer than a blue whale.

Who acts: siphonophore, many tiny animals, some · What happens: look, be, live together · To what, where: chain

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 (siphonophore, many tiny animals, some), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 siphonophore	det
2	siphonophore	siphonophore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 jellyfish	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 jellyfish	nummod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jellyfish	amod
7	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 chain	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 chain	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chain	det
11	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 animals	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animals	amod
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animals	amod
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chain	nmod
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 animals	acl
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 living	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 longer	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 longer	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 longer	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 longer	cop
22	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 looks	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 whale	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 whale	det
25	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 whale	amod
26	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 longer	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	a siphonophore		like one long jellyfish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	a siphonophore not said here	a chain	of many tiny animals	tree rules
3	live together	gerund	many tiny animals not said here		together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	some		than a blue whale; long property	tree rules

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:14.

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): 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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