The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 6
An axolotl hunts by suddenly opening its wide mouth and sucking in worms, insect larvae and small fish; its smile is just the shape of its mouth, even when it is ill.
Who acts: axolotl, smile · What happens: hunt, open, suck, be, smile · To what, where: wide mouth, shape
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 (axolotl, smile), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunts | det |
| 2 | axolotl | axolotl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | nsubj |
| 3 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 opening | mark |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 opening | advmod |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hunts | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sucking | cc |
| 11 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 opening | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 worms | case |
| 13 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sucking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 larvae | punct |
| 15 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 larvae | compound |
| 16 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 worms | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fish | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worms | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shape | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 smile | nmod:poss |
| 22 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shape | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 shape | cop |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 shape | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shape | det |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mouth | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shape | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ill | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 ill | advmod |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 ill | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ill | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 ill | cop |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shape | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | axolotl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | axolotl not said here | axolotl's wide mouth | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 3 | suck | gerund | axolotl not said here | in worms and insect larvae and small fish | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | axolotl's smile | the shape | of axolotl's mouth | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | axolotl | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | smile | axolotl | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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): 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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