More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 12
A male stickleback glues weed together with a sticky thread from his kidneys, turns red in spring, guards the eggs and fans water over them to give them oxygen.
Who acts: male stickleback · What happens: glue, turn, guard, fan, give · To what, where: weed, eggs, water, oxygen
This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (male stickleback), 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 | 3 stickleback | det |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stickleback | amod |
| 3 | stickleback | stickleback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glues | nsubj |
| 4 | glues | glue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glues | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 glues | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 thread | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thread | det |
| 9 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thread | amod |
| 10 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glues | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 kidneys | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kidneys | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kidneys | kidney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thread | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turns | punct |
| 15 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glues | conj |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turns | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spring | case |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guards | punct |
| 20 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glues | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eggs | det |
| 22 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 guards | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fans | cc |
| 24 | fans | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glues | conj |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fans | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fans | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 give | mark |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fans | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glues | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glue | present | a male stickleback | weed | with a sticky thread from stickleback's kidneys; together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent weed=Patient with thread=Instrument | |||
| 2 | turn | present | a male stickleback not said here | spring | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | guard | present | a male stickleback not said here | the eggs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | fan | present | a male stickleback not said here | water | over eggs = egg | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | a male stickleback not said here | oxygen | eggs = egg | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient oxygen=Theme |
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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R6-punct-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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