How animals hunt, sentence 11
A female deep-sea anglerfish has a glowing lure on her head, made by light-giving bacteria, and small fish in the dark swim towards it.
Who acts: female sea anglerfish, small fish · What happens: have, glow, make, give, swim · To what, where: glowing lure, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (female sea anglerfish, small fish), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 anglerfish | det |
| 2 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anglerfish | amod |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sea | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 deep | punct |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anglerfish | compound |
| 6 | anglerfish | anglerfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lure | det |
| 9 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lure | amod |
| 10 | lure | lure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lure | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lure | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 bacteria | case |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 light | punct |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 bacteria | amod |
| 20 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 swim | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 swim | cc |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fish | amod |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 swim | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dark | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dark | det |
| 27 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fish | nmod |
| 28 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | conj |
| 29 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 swim | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a female sea anglerfish | a glowing lure | kingfisher's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lure=Patient | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | a glowing lure not said here | by giving bacteria | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | swim | present | small fish in the dark | head | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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