Masters of camouflage, sentence 10

Flounders change colour to match the sea floor and bury themselves in sand, and as they grow both eyes move to one side of the head.

Who acts: Flounders, eyes · What happens: change, match, bury, grow, move · To what, where: colour, sea floor, sand, one side

This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (Flounders, eyes), 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	Flounders	Flounders	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 match	mark
5	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 change	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floor	compound
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 match	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bury	cc
10	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 match	conj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 bury	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sand	case
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bury	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 move	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 move	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 grow	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grow	nsubj
18	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 move	advcl
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 eyes	det
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 move	nsubj
21	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 side	nummod
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 move	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 head	det
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 side	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	change	present	Flounders	colour		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	match	to-infinitive	Flounders not said here	the sea floor		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
3	bury	infinitive	Flounders not said here	colour	sand	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in sand=Destination
4	grow	present	Flounders			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	move	present	both eyes		one side of the head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory

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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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