The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 14
Some mantis shrimps are smashers with clubs for hard shells, and others are spearers that stab soft fish from their burrows in the sand.
Who acts: mantis shrimps, others, spearers · What happens: be, stab · To what, where: smashers, spearers, soft fish, burrows
This is a sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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 (mantis shrimps, others, spearers), 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 | 3 shrimps | det |
| 2 | mantis | mantis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrimps | compound |
| 3 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smashers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smashers | cop |
| 5 | smashers | smasher | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 clubs | case |
| 7 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smashers | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 shells | case |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shells | amod |
| 10 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clubs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spearers | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spearers | cc |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spearers | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spearers | cop |
| 15 | spearers | spearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smashers | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stab | nsubj |
| 17 | stab | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spearers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stab | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 burrows | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 burrows | nmod:poss |
| 22 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stab | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sand | det |
| 25 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stab | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smashers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some mantis shrimps | smashers and spearers | with clubs for hard shells | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | others | spearers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stab | present | spearers | soft fish | others's burrows | in the sand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Patient in sand=Location |
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.
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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): no change. 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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