Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 8

Male fiddler crabs wave one giant claw to attract females and warn rivals, and they eat with the small claw because the big one is too large.

Who acts: Male fiddler crabs, crabs, big one · What happens: wave, attract, warn, eat, be · To what, where: one giant claw, females, rivals

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 (Male fiddler crabs, crabs, big one), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crabs	amod
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crabs	compound
3	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wave	nsubj
4	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 claw	nummod
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claw	amod
7	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wave	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attract	mark
9	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wave	advcl
10	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attract	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 warn	cc
12	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attract	conj
13	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 warn	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wave	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 claw	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 claw	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 claw	amod
21	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 large	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 large	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 large	cop
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eat	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wave	present	Male fiddler crabs	one giant claw		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
2	attract	to-infinitive	Male fiddler crabs not said here	females		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Patient
3	warn speech: warn	infinitive	Male fiddler crabs not said here	rivals		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rival=Recipient
4	eat	present	crabs = crab		with the small claw	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the big one		large property	tree rules

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:8.

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. 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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