Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 16
The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals floating under a gas-filled sail, with stinging tentacles that can trail over 10 metres; even a dead one on the beach can sting.
Who acts: Portuguese man, tiny animals, tentacles, dead one · What happens: not be, float, fill, sting, trail · To what, where: jellyfish, filled sail, tentacles, 10 metres
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 (Portuguese man, tiny animals, tentacles, dead one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | Portuguese | Portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jellyfish | nsubj |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 war | case |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 war | punct |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 jellyfish | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 jellyfish | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jellyfish | det |
| 10 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 colony | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 colony | det |
| 13 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jellyfish | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 animals | case |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colony | nmod |
| 17 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 animals | acl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 sail | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sail | det |
| 20 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 gas | punct |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sail | amod |
| 23 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floating | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stinging | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 stinging | mark |
| 26 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jellyfish | conj |
| 27 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stinging | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 trail | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 trail | aux |
| 30 | trail | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tentacles | acl:relcl |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 10 | advmod |
| 32 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 metres | nummod |
| 33 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 trail | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 jellyfish | punct |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 one | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sting | nsubj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 beach | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 beach | det |
| 41 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 sting | aux |
| 43 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jellyfish | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jellyfish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the Portuguese man of war | a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | tiny animals not said here | a filled sail | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sail=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | sting | gerund | the Portuguese man of war not said here | tentacles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tentacle=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | trail | can | tentacles | 10 metres | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sting | can | a dead one on the beach | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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