The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 11

Hagfish make huge amounts of slime when attacked, enough to fill a bucket in seconds, and they tie themselves in knots to wipe the slime off and to tear food.

Who acts: Hagfish · What happens: make, attack, fill, tie, wipe off, tear · To what, where: huge amounts, bucket, hagfish, knots, slime, food

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 (Hagfish), 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	Hagfish	hagfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amounts	amod
4	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 slime	case
6	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 amounts	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 attacked	advmod
8	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 amounts	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 enough	punct
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fill	mark
12	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 enough	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bucket	det
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fill	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 seconds	case
16	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fill	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tie	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tie	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tie	nsubj
20	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 tie	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 knots	case
23	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tie	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wipe	mark
25	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tie	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 slime	det
27	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wipe	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	25 wipe	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tear	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tear	mark
31	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wipe	conj
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tear	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	present	Hagfish	huge amounts of slime			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product
2	attack	participle					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	to-infinitive	Hagfish not said here	a bucket		second	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient
4	tie	present	hagfish	hagfish	knots		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	wipe off	to-infinitive	hagfish not said here	the slime			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slime=Source
6	tear	to-infinitive	hagfish not said here	food			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location food=Theme
7	amount			slime			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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): no change. 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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