The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 5
Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.
Who acts: Anglerfish eels, mouths, stomachs · What happens: swallow, open, stretch · To what, where: prey
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 (Anglerfish eels, mouths, stomachs), 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 | Anglerfish | anglerfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eels | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gulper | cc |
| 3 | gulper | gulper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Anglerfish | conj |
| 4 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swallow | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 swallow | aux |
| 6 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallow | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 big | advmod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swallow | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 themselves | case |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 big | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bigger | cc |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 big | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 open | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 open | nsubj |
| 18 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swallow | advcl |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 wide | advmod |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 18 open | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stretch | cc |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 stomachs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stretch | nsubj |
| 24 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 open | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swallow | 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 | swallow | can | Anglerfish eels | prey | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | ||||
| 2 | open | present | people's mouths | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | people's stomachs | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: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): 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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