Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 12

Starfish move on hundreds of tiny tube feet worked by water pressure, push their stomach into a mussel's shell to digest it, can regrow lost arms, and have no brain.

Who acts: Starfish · What happens: move, work, push, digest, regrow, lose · To what, where: hundreds, tiny tube feet, stomach, shell, lost arms, brain

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 (Starfish), 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	Starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 hundreds	case
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 feet	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
7	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	compound
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hundreds	nmod
9	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 feet	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 pressure	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pressure	compound
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 push	punct
14	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 move	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stomach	nmod:poss
16	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 push	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 shell	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mussel	det
19	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shell	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 mussel	case
21	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 push	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 digest	mark
23	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 push	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 digest	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 regrow	punct
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 regrow	aux
27	regrow	regrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 push	conj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 arms	amod
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 regrow	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 regrow	conj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 brain	det
34	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	present	Starfish		hundreds of tiny tube feet		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hundred=Trajectory
2	work	participle		tiny tube feet not said here		by water pressure	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	present	Starfish not said here	hundreds's stomach	a mussel's shell		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme into shell=Destination
4	digest	to-infinitive	Starfish not said here	stomach			tree rules
5	regrow	can	Starfish not said here	lost arms			tree rules
6	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	Starfish not said here	no brain			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:12.

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, R7-rel-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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