Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 1

They stand on stilt roots like a table on long legs, and some poke little pencil-like breathing roots up out of the mud, because the sticky mud below has almost no air.

Who acts: mangroves, some, sticky mud · What happens: stand, poke, have · To what, where: stilt roots, little like breathing roots, mud, air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (mangroves, some, sticky mud), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	stilt	stilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roots	compound
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roots	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 table	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poke	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 poke	nsubj
15	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	conj
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 roots	amod
17	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 like	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
19	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 roots	amod
20	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roots	compound
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 poke	obj
22	up	up	ADV	_	26 mud	advmod
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 mud	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 mud	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mud	det
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roots	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 has	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mud	det
30	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mud	amod
31	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	nsubj
32	below	below	ADV	_	31 mud	advmod
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 poke	advcl
34	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 air	advmod
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 air	det
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stand	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	present	mangroves = mangrove		stilt roots like a table on long legs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on root=Location
2	poke	present	some	little like breathing roots	the mud	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme
3	have	present	the sticky mud	no air		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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 ×1, 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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