Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 5
The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast that a bubble forms and bursts with a loud crack that stuns small fish, and for an instant the bubble is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun.
Who acts: pistol shrimp, bubble, loud crack · What happens: snap, form, burst, stun, be · To what, where: claw, small fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (pistol shrimp, bubble, loud crack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shrimp | det |
| 2 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrimp | compound |
| 3 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snaps | nsubj |
| 4 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 claw | nmod:poss |
| 6 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snaps | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 4 snaps | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forms | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bubble | det |
| 11 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forms | nsubj |
| 12 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 snaps | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bursts | cc |
| 14 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 forms | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 crack | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crack | det |
| 17 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crack | amod |
| 18 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bursts | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 stuns | nsubj |
| 20 | stuns | stun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 crack | acl:relcl |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fish | amod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stuns | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hot | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hot | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 instant | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 instant | det |
| 27 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hot | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bubble | det |
| 29 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hot | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 hot | cop |
| 31 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 33 hot | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 hot | advmod |
| 33 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snaps | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 surface | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 surface | det |
| 36 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hot | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Sun. | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Sun. | det |
| 39 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 surface | nmod |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | the pistol shrimp | shrimp's claw | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location claw=Theme | |||
| 2 | form | present | a bubble | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burst | present | a bubble not said here | with a loud crack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stun | present | a loud crack | small fish | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the bubble | for a instant; as the surface of the Sun.; hot, nearly 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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:5.
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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