The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 9

When its home dries out, a tardigrade pulls in its legs and head and shrivels into a tun, which can survive for years and come back to life when wetted.

Who acts: home, tardigrade, tun · What happens: dry out, pull in, shrivel, survive, come back, wet · To what, where: legs, tun

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 (home, tardigrade, tun), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 dries	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 home	nmod:poss
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	nsubj
4	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pulls	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dries	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dries	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tardigrade	det
8	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	nsubj
9	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 pulls	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pulls	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 head	cc
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shrivels	cc
16	shrivels	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pulls	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 tun	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tun	det
19	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shrivels	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 survive	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 survive	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 survive	aux
23	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tun	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 years	case
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 survive	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 survive	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 life	case
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 back	obl
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 wetted	mark
32	wetted	wet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 come	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pulls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	moss's home				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pull in	present	a tardigrade	tardigrade's legs and head			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shrivel	present	a tardigrade not said here			into a tun result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into tun=Result
4	survive	can	a tun		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come back	infinitive	a tun not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wet	participle	a tun not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:9.

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. 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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