Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 6

In seahorses the mother puts her eggs into a pouch on the father's belly, and after a few weeks he pushes out the babies, sometimes hundreds or even over a thousand.

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: put, push out · To what, where: eggs, seahorses, babies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (mother, father), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 seahorses	case
2	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 puts	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	nsubj
5	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eggs	nmod:poss
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 puts	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pouch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pouch	det
10	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 belly	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belly	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pouch	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pushes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pushes	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 weeks	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 weeks	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 weeks	amod
21	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pushes	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pushes	nsubj
23	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 puts	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 pushes	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 babies	det
26	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pushes	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hundreds	punct
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 hundreds	advmod
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 babies	appos
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 thousand	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 thousand	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 thousand	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 thousand	det
34	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundreds	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 puts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	the mother	mother's eggs		seahorses		into a pouch on the father's belly	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in seahorse=Destination
2	push out	present	father	the babies			week		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:049-babies.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): 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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