The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 1

So the deep is full of clever tricks: an anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth like a fishing rod, and a gulper eel has a mouth so big it can swallow a meal almost its own size.

Who acts: deep, anglerfish, gulper eel, eel · What happens: be, dangle, glow, have, swallow · To what, where: glowing lure, front, mouth, meal

This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (deep, anglerfish, gulper eel, eel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 full	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 deep	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 full	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tricks	case
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tricks	amod
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 dangles	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 anglerfish	det
11	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dangles	nsubj
12	dangles	dangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lure	det
14	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 lure	amod
15	lure	lure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dangles	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dangles	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 front	nmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 rod	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rod	det
23	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rod	compound
24	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dangles	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 has	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 has	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 eel	det
28	gulper	gulper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eel	compound
29	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dangles	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mouth	det
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 big	advmod
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mouth	amod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 swallow	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 swallow	aux
37	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 big	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 meal	det
39	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swallow	obj
40	almost	almost	ADV	_	43 size	advmod
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 size	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 size	amod
43	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swallow	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the deep			of clever tricks; full property	tree rules
2	dangle	present	a anglerfish	a glowing lure	front of anglerfish's mouth	like a fishing rod	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lure=Theme in front=Destination
3	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	a gulper eel	a mouth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
5	swallow	can	eel	a meal			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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:1.

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, 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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