Masters of camouflage, sentence 15

Decorator crabs stick bits of sponge and seaweed on their shells to hide, and they change their decorations when they move to a new place.

Who acts: Decorator crabs, sponge · What happens: stick, hide, change, move · To what, where: bits, shells, decorations, new place

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 (Decorator crabs, sponge), 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	Decorator	decorator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crabs	compound
2	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	nsubj
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sponge	case
6	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bits	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seaweed	cc
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sponge	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shells	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shells	nmod:poss
11	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hide	mark
13	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stick	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 change	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 change	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 change	nsubj
17	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stick	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 decorations	nmod:poss
19	decorations	decoration	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 change	obj
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 move	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 move	nsubj
22	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 change	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 move	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stick	present	Decorator crabs	bits of sponge and seaweed	sponge's shells	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme on shell=Destination
2	hide	to-infinitive	Decorator crabs not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	change	present	sponge	sponge's decorations		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decoration=Patient
4	move	present	sponge		a new place	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=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:15.

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): no change. 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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