The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 9
Blobfish look like sad jelly blobs in photos because they are hurt when pulled up from the deep, but in their deep home they look like normal fish; a photo of a hurt blobfish once won a vote for the world's ugliest animal.
Who acts: Blobfish, photo · What happens: look, hurt, pull up, win · To what, where: Blobfish, vote
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 (Blobfish, photo), 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 | Blobfish | Blobfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 blobs | case |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blobs | amod |
| 5 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blobs | compound |
| 6 | blobs | blob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 photos | case |
| 8 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 hurt | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurt | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hurt | aux:pass |
| 12 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 look | advcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hurt | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 pulled | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 deep | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deep | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pulled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 look | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 home | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 look | nsubj |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 28 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fish | amod |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 photo | det |
| 32 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 won | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 blobfish | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 blobfish | det |
| 35 | hurt | hurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 blobfish | amod |
| 36 | blobfish | blobfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 photo | nmod |
| 37 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 38 won | advmod |
| 38 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 vote | det |
| 40 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 won | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 animal | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 animal | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 world | case |
| 45 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 animal | amod |
| 46 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 vote | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Blobfish | like sad jelly blobs; in photos | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in photo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present · passive | Blobfish | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pull up | participle | from the deep | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from deep=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | present | Blobfish | like normal fish; in Blobfish's deep home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in home=Theme | ||||
| 5 | win | past | a photo of a hurt blobfish | a vote | for the world's ugliest animal; once property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vote=Theme for animal=Beneficiary |
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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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