The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 5
The barreleye fish has a clear dome on its head, and its green eyes look up through it; its see-through head was only filmed alive in 2009, because nets used to destroy it.
Who acts: barreleye fish, green eyes · What happens: have, look up, see, film, use, destroy · To what, where: clear dome, head, through head, 2009, nets
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 (barreleye fish, green eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | barreleye | barreleye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | compound |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dome | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dome | amod |
| 7 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 look | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 filmed | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 through | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 24 | through | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 filmed | aux:pass |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 filmed | advmod |
| 28 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | parataxis |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 filmed | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 2009 | case |
| 31 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 filmed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 nets | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 used | mark |
| 34 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 used | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 filmed | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 destroy | mark |
| 37 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 used | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 destroy | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the barreleye fish | a clear dome | dome's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dome=Patient | |||
| 2 | look up | present | dome's green eyes | through dome | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | film | past · passive | dome's through head | 2009 | alive property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2009=Destination | |||
| 5 | use | past · passive | nets | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | destroy | to-infinitive | head | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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