Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 18

In seahorses the female puts her eggs into the male's belly pouch and the father gives birth, sometimes to over a thousand babies at a time.

Who acts: female, father · What happens: put, give · To what, where: eggs, seahorses, birth, thousand babies

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 (female, father), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 seahorses	case
2	seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 puts	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 female	det
4	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	nsubj
5	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eggs	nmod:poss
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 puts	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	13 pouch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 male	det
10	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pouch	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 male	case
12	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pouch	compound
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gives	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	nsubj
17	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 puts	conj
18	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gives	punct
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 gives	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 babies	case
22	over	over	ADV	_	24 thousand	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thousand	det
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 babies	nummod
25	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gives	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 babies	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 puts	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	put	present	the female	female's eggs		seahorses		into the male's belly pouch	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in seahorse=Destination
2	give	present	the father	birth	thousand babies at a time			sometimes property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to baby=Recipient

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:18.

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, 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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