Masters of camouflage, sentence 4

The leafy seadragon has leaf-shaped flaps all over its body and drifts slowly among seaweed, and seadragon fathers carry the eggs on their tails until they hatch.

Who acts: leafy seadragon, seadragon fathers, fathers · What happens: have, shape, drift, carry, hatch · To what, where: shaped flaps, body, seaweed, eggs, tails

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 (leafy seadragon, seadragon fathers, fathers), 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 seadragon	det
2	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seadragon	amod
3	seadragon	seadragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaped	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 shaped	punct
7	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 flaps	amod
8	flaps	flap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 body	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 body	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flaps	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drifts	cc
14	drifts	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 drifts	advmod
16	among	among	ADP	_	17 seaweed	case
17	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drifts	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carry	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carry	cc
20	seadragon	seadragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fathers	compound
21	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carry	nsubj
22	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eggs	det
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carry	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 tails	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tails	nmod:poss
27	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carry	obl
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 hatch	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hatch	nsubj
30	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 carry	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the leafy seadragon	shaped flaps	seadragon's body		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient
2	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	drift	present	the leafy seadragon not said here		seaweed	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among seaweed=Trajectory
4	carry	present	seadragon fathers	the eggs	fathers's tails		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
5	hatch	present	fathers = father				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:4.

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 ×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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