The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 3
Games and memes call tardigrades indestructible and say mantis shrimps see a rainbow we cannot imagine; the truth is cleverer, because the tardigrade survives by shutting down and the mantis shrimp sees colours fast rather than finely.
Who acts: Games, mantis shrimps, we, truth, tardigrade, mantis shrimp · What happens: call, say, see, not imagine, be, survive · To what, where: tardigrades, rainbow, colours · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Games, mantis shrimps, we, truth), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 memes | cc |
| 3 | memes | meme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Games | conj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tardigrades | tardigrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | indestructible | indestructible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 call | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 say | cc |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | conj |
| 9 | mantis | mantis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shrimps | compound |
| 10 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rainbow | det |
| 13 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 imagine | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 imagine | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 imagine | advmod |
| 17 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rainbow | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cleverer | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cleverer | cop |
| 22 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 call | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 survives | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 survives | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tardigrade | det |
| 26 | tardigrade | tardigrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 survives | nsubj |
| 27 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cleverer | advcl |
| 28 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 29 shutting | mark |
| 29 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 survives | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 shutting | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sees | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shrimp | det |
| 33 | mantis | mantis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shrimp | compound |
| 34 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sees | nsubj |
| 35 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 survives | conj |
| 36 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sees | obj |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 sees | advmod |
| 38 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 35 sees | advmod |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 finely | case |
| 40 | finely | finely | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 fast | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Games and memes | tardigrades | indestructible property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tardigrade=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Games and memes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | present | mantis shrimps | a rainbow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not imagine | can | we | a rainbow not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rainbow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the truth | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | survive | present | the tardigrade | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shut down | gerund | the tardigrade not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | see | present | the mantis shrimp | colours | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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