Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 2
Among those roots live fish that walk on mud, fish that shoot down insects with a squirt of water, crabs waving one giant claw, and in the biggest mangrove forest of all, tigers that swim from island to island.
Who acts: fish, crabs, tigers · What happens: live, walk, shoot down, wave, swim · To what, where: roots, mud, insects, one giant claw, island
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 (fish, crabs, tigers), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 roots | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 roots | det |
| 3 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 mud | case |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fish | punct |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fish | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shoot | nsubj |
| 13 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fish | acl:relcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 shoot | compound:prt |
| 15 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shoot | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 squirt | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 squirt | det |
| 18 | squirt | squirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoot | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squirt | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crabs | punct |
| 22 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fish | conj |
| 23 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 crabs | acl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 claw | nummod |
| 25 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 claw | amod |
| 26 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waving | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forest | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 forest | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 forest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 forest | det |
| 31 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 forest | amod |
| 32 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forest | compound |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 forest | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tigers | punct |
| 37 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fish | conj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 swim | nsubj |
| 39 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tigers | acl:relcl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 island | case |
| 41 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 swim | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 island | case |
| 43 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 swim | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | fish and fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | that roots | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among root=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | fish and fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | mud | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mud=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | shoot down | present | fish and crabs and the biggest mangrove forest of all and tigers | insects | with a squirt of water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent insect=Patient with squirt=Instrument | |||
| 4 | wave | gerund | crabs not said here | one giant claw | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | ||||
| 5 | swim | present | tigers | island | to island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to island=Destination |
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:2.
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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