The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 12
A pleco sucking on the glass is scraping off algae (a green slimy growth of tiny plant-like living things) with its sucker mouth, and some kinds of pleco grow much bigger than the shop said.
Who acts: pleco, kinds, shop, tiny plant · What happens: suck, scrape off, live, grow, say · To what, where: algae · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 (pleco, kinds, shop, tiny plant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pleco | det |
| 2 | pleco | pleco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scraping | nsubj |
| 3 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 pleco | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 glass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 glass | det |
| 6 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sucking | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scraping | aux |
| 8 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 scraping | compound:prt |
| 10 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scraping | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 growth | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 growth | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 growth | amod |
| 14 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 growth | amod |
| 15 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 algae | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plant | case |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plant | amod |
| 18 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growth | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 things | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 growth | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 growth | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mouth | compound |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scraping | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grow | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kinds | cc |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 kinds | det |
| 31 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 grow | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 pleco | case |
| 33 | pleco | pleco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kinds | nmod |
| 34 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scraping | conj |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 bigger | advmod |
| 36 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 grow | xcomp |
| 37 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 said | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 shop | det |
| 39 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 said | nsubj |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bigger | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 scraping | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | gerund | a pleco not said here | on the glass | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on glass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scrape off | present · progressive | a pleco | algae | with pleco's sucker mouth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient with mouth=Instrument | |||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow | present | some kinds of pleco | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the shop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | grow | tiny plant | like living things | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent like=obl |
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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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