Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 13
Cleaner wrasse eat parasites off bigger fish at «cleaning stations»; sometimes they cheat by biting healthy skin, and they cheat less when other fish are watching.
Who acts: Cleaner wrasse, parasites, other fish · What happens: eat, cheat, bite, watch · To what, where: parasites, cleaning stations, healthy skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 (Cleaner wrasse, parasites, other fish), 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 | Cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrasse | compound |
| 2 | wrasse | wrasse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | parasites | parasite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 stations | case |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 stations | punct |
| 10 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stations | compound |
| 11 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 stations | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheat | punct |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 cheat | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cheat | nsubj |
| 16 | cheat | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 biting | mark |
| 18 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 cheat | advcl |
| 19 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 biting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cheat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cheat | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cheat | nsubj |
| 24 | cheat | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cheat | conj |
| 25 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 cheat | advmod |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 watching | advmod |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fish | amod |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 watching | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 watching | aux |
| 30 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cheat | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | 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 | eat | present | Cleaner wrasse | parasites | cleaning stations | off bigger fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Patient | ||
| 2 | cheat | present | parasites = parasite | sometimes property | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | parasites = parasite not said here | healthy skin | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cheat | present | parasites = parasite | less property | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | watch | present · progressive | other fish | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:13.
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, 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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