More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 3

Some builders work under water: a male stickleback glues a nest of weed, and a small pufferfish draws a perfect circle in the sand with its fins.

Who acts: builders, small pufferfish · What happens: work, glue, draw · To what, where: water, nest, perfect circle, sand

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 (builders, small pufferfish), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 builders	det
2	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 glues	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 glues	det
8	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glues	amod
9	stickleback	stickleback	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glues	compound
10	glues	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 work	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glues	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 weed	case
14	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nest	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 draws	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 draws	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pufferfish	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pufferfish	amod
19	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 draws	nsubj
20	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 glues	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 circle	det
22	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 circle	amod
23	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 draws	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sand	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sand	det
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 circle	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 fins	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fins	nmod:poss
29	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 draws	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 work	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	work	present	some builders		water		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glue	present		a nest of weed			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
3	draw	present	a small pufferfish	a perfect circle	the sand	with pufferfish's fins	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme in sand=Destination

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:3.

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, 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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