Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 7

Archerfish shoot jets of water to knock insects into the water, and they aim correctly even though water bends light and makes things look in a different place.

Who acts: Archerfish, mangroves, water, things · What happens: shoot, knock, aim, bend, make, look · To what, where: jets, insects, water, things

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 (Archerfish, mangroves, water, things), 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	Archerfish	archerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoot	nsubj
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jets	jet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoot	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jets	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 knock	mark
7	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shoot	advcl
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knock	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knock	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 aim	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 aim	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 aim	nsubj
15	aim	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shoot	conj
16	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	15 aim	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 bends	advmod
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 bends	mark
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bends	nsubj
20	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 aim	advcl
21	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bends	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 makes	cc
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bends	conj
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 makes	obj
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 makes	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 place	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 place	det
28	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 place	amod
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	Archerfish	jets of water			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jet=Theme
2	knock	to-infinitive	Archerfish not said here	insects	the water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent insect=Theme into water=Destination
3	aim	present	mangroves = mangrove			correctly property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	bend	present	water			light property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	present	water not said here	things			tree rules
6	look	infinitive	things not said here			in a different place	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme

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:7.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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