Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave, sentence 6
Blind cave fish have lost their eyes because in total darkness eyes are useless and making them costs energy; Mexican cave fish have river relatives with eyes.
Who acts: Blind cave fish, eyes, Mexican cave fish · What happens: lose, be, make, cost, have · To what, where: eyes, energy, river relatives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 (Blind cave fish, eyes, Mexican cave fish), 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 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 2 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | compound |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 useless | mark |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | fixed |
| 10 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 darkness | amod |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 useless | obl |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 useless | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 useless | cop |
| 14 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lost | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 making | cc |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 useless | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 making | obj |
| 18 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 costs | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fish | amod |
| 22 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fish | compound |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 relatives | compound |
| 26 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 relatives | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | Blind cave fish | fish's eyes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | eyes | total darkness obl; useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | eyes not said here | eyes = eye | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 4 | cost | present | Blind cave fish not said here | energy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme energy=Value | ||||
| 5 | have | present | Mexican cave fish | river relatives | with eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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