Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 13

At low tide beadlet anemones pull in their tentacles and become jelly blobs to keep moist; they sting prey with tiny harpoon cells, but too weakly to hurt a person's fingers.

Who acts: beadlet anemones, hundreds · What happens: pull, become, keep, sting, hurt · To what, where: jelly blobs, prey, fingers

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 (beadlet anemones, hundreds), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 tide	case
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tide	amod
3	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	obl
4	beadlet	beadlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anemones	compound
5	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	nsubj
6	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tentacles	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tentacles	nmod:poss
9	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 become	cc
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pull	conj
12	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blobs	compound
13	blobs	blob	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 become	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 become	xcomp
16	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sting	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sting	nsubj
19	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	parataxis
20	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sting	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 cells	case
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cells	amod
23	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cells	compound
24	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sting	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 weakly	cc
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 weakly	advmod
28	weakly	weakly	ADV	_	19 sting	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hurt	mark
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 weakly	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 person	det
32	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fingers	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 person	case
34	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hurt	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	present	beadlet anemones		in hundreds's tentacles; at low tide	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tide=Theme
2	become	infinitive	beadlet anemones not said here	jelly blobs		tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	beadlet anemones not said here		moist property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sting	present	hundreds = hundred	prey	with tiny harpoon cells	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prey=Experiencer with cell=Instrument
5	hurt	to-infinitive	hundreds = hundred not said here	a person's fingers		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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