The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 12
Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward.
Who acts: Many deep fish, some, shaped eyes · What happens: have, catch, glow, shape, look · To what, where: big eyes, faint light, shaped eyes
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 (Many deep fish, some, shaped 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eyes | acl |
| 9 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 animals | case |
| 12 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 animals | amod |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 catch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 have | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 18 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shaped | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 shaped | punct |
| 20 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 look | nsubj |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 24 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 23 look | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many deep fish | big eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | Many deep fish not said here | faint light | from glowing animals | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent light=Theme from animal=Source | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | some | shaped eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | look | present | shaped eyes | upward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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