Masters of camouflage, sentence 14
The frogfish looks like a sponge or rock, waits for fish and swallows them quickly, even fish as big as itself.
Who acts: frogfish · What happens: look, wait, swallow, fish · To what, where: rocks
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 (frogfish), 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 | 2 frogfish | det |
| 2 | frogfish | frogfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 sponge | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sponge | det |
| 6 | sponge | sponge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 rock | cc |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sponge | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waits | punct |
| 10 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fish | case |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waits | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swallows | cc |
| 14 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swallows | obj |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 swallows | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fish | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 fish | advmod |
| 19 | fish | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swallows | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 big | advmod |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 itself | case |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 big | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the frogfish | like a sponge or rock | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | the frogfish not said here | for fish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow | present | the frogfish not said here | rocks = rock | quickly property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | fish | present | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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. 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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