The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 9
Fish have no eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, resting quietly near the bottom or among plants, and some parrotfish wrap themselves in a bubble of slime to sleep.
Who acts: Fish, parrotfish · What happens: have, sleep, rest, wrap · To what, where: eyelids, bottom, Fish, bubble
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 (Fish, parrotfish), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 eyelids | det |
| 4 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nsubj |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sleep | obl |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resting | punct |
| 14 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 have | conj |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 resting | advmod |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 bottom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bottom | det |
| 18 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resting | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 plants | cc |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 plants | case |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bottom | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wrap | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wrap | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 parrotfish | det |
| 25 | parrotfish | parrotfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 wrap | nsubj |
| 26 | wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 wrap | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bubble | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bubble | det |
| 30 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wrap | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 slime | case |
| 32 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bubble | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 bubble | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Fish | no eyelids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present | Fish | with Fish's eyes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | Fish not said here | the bottom or plants | quietly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottom=Location | |||
| 4 | wrap | present | some parrotfish | Fish | a bubble of slime | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in bubble=Destination | |||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | some parrotfish not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.lesson:9.
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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