The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 9

Deep-sea anglerfish lure prey with a light made by bacteria living in the lure, and in some kinds the tiny male fuses onto the much larger female for life.

Who acts: sea anglerfish, bacteria, tiny male · What happens: lure, make, live, fuse · To what, where: prey, light, lure, kinds

This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (sea anglerfish, bacteria, tiny male), 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	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Deep	punct
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anglerfish	compound
4	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lure	nsubj
5	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lure	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 light	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lure	obl
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 light	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 bacteria	case
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obl:agent
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 bacteria	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 lure	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lure	det
16	lure	lure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 living	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fuses	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fuses	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 kinds	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 kinds	det
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fuses	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 male	det
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 male	amod
24	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fuses	nsubj
25	fuses	fuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prey	conj
26	onto	onto	ADP	_	30 female	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 female	det
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 larger	advmod
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 female	amod
30	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fuses	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 life	case
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fuses	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lure	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lure	present	sea anglerfish	prey		with a light	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
2	make	participle		a light not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	live	gerund	bacteria not said here		the lure		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lure=Location
4	fuse	present	the tiny male		some kinds	onto the larger female; for life	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP 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:008-the-ocean.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. 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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