Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 4
In SpongeBob SquarePants Patrick Star is famously brainless, and that is the one true joke: a real starfish has no brain at all, yet it walks on hundreds of tube feet and eats mussels with its stomach pushed out of its body.
Who acts: Patrick Star, that, real starfish, starfish, stomach · What happens: be, have, walk, eat, push out · To what, where: SpongeBob SquarePants, one true joke, brain, all, hundreds, mussels
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 (Patrick Star, that, real starfish, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 SquarePants | case |
| 2 | SpongeBob | SpongeBob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 SquarePants | compound |
| 3 | SquarePants | SquarePants | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 brainless | obl |
| 4 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Star | compound |
| 5 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brainless | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brainless | cop |
| 7 | famously | famously | ADV | _ | 8 brainless | advmod |
| 8 | brainless | brainless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 joke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 joke | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 joke | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 joke | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 joke | det |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 joke | nummod |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joke | amod |
| 16 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brainless | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 starfish | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 starfish | amod |
| 20 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 joke | acl:relcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 brain | det |
| 23 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 has | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 walks | punct |
| 27 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 29 walks | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 walks | nsubj |
| 29 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brainless | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 hundreds | case |
| 31 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 walks | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 33 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 feet | compound |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hundreds | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 eats | cc |
| 36 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 walks | conj |
| 37 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 eats | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 stomach | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 40 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mussels | obl |
| 41 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 stomach | acl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 body | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 body | case |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 body | nmod:poss |
| 45 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pushed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brainless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Patrick Star | SpongeBob SquarePants | brainless, famously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the one true joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a real starfish | no brain | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | |||
| 4 | walk | present | starfish | hundreds of tube feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hundred=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | starfish not said here | mussels | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Patient | ||||
| 6 | push out | participle | starfish's stomach not said here | starfish's body | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
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:4.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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