Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 7

A scallop can have up to about 200 tiny eyes, often bright blue dots, along the edge of its body between the two shells; each focuses light with a tiny curved mirror, and it spots shadows such as a hungry starfish, and then swims away by clapping its two shells together.

Who acts: scallop, each · What happens: have up, focus, curve, spot, swim away, clap · To what, where: 200 tiny eyes, light, shadows, two shells

This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (scallop, each), 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 scallop	det
2	scallop	scallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 have	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 200	advmod
8	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 eyes	nummod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dots	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	15 dots	advmod
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dots	amod
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dots	amod
15	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eyes	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 edge	punct
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 edge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 edge	det
19	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eyes	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 body	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 body	nmod:poss
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 edge	nmod
23	between	between	ADP	_	26 shells	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shells	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 shells	nummod
26	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 body	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 light	punct
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 focuses	nsubj
29	focuses	focus	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shells	conj
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 focuses	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 mirror	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mirror	det
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mirror	amod
34	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 mirror	amod
35	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 focuses	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spots	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 spots	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 spots	nsubj
39	spots	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shells	conj
40	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 spots	obj
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	45 starfish	case
42	as	as	ADP	_	41 such	fixed
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 starfish	det
44	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 starfish	amod
45	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shadows	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 swims	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 swims	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 swims	advmod
49	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shells	conj
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 swims	advmod
51	by	by	SCONJ	_	52 clapping	mark
52	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 swims	advcl
53	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 shells	nmod:poss
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 shells	nummod
55	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 clapping	obj
56	together	together	ADV	_	52 clapping	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have up	can	a scallop	200 tiny eyes		along the edge of scallop's body between the two shells	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	focus	present	each	light		with a tiny curved mirror	tree rules
3	curve	participle					vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
4	spot	present	scallop	shadows		such a hungry starfish	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shadow=Destination
5	swim away	present	a scallop not said here		then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	clap	gerund	a scallop not said here	scallop's two shells		together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=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:041-counting-animals.lesson:7.

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 ×2, 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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