Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 19

A mother octopus guards and cleans her eggs without eating until they hatch, and soon after she dies; one deep-sea mother guarded hers for four and a half years.

Who acts: mother, eggs, one sea mother · What happens: guard, clean, eat, hatch, die · To what, where: eggs, adult

This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 (mother, eggs, one sea mother), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	nsubj
3	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	compound
4	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 guarded	parataxis
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cleans	cc
6	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guards	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eggs	nmod:poss
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guards	obj
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 guards	advcl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 hatch	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hatch	nsubj
13	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dies	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dies	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 dies	advmod
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 dies	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dies	nsubj
19	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guards	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 guarded	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 mother	nummod
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sea	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 deep	punct
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mother	compound
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guarded	nsubj
26	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 guarded	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 four	case
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 years	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 half	det
32	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 years	amod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 guarded	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guards	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	guard	present	a mother	mother's eggs			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary
2	clean	present	a mother not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	gerund	a mother not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hatch	present	eggs = egg				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
5	die	present	mother			soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	guard	past	one sea mother		adult		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Beneficiary

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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:19.

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 ×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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