Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 6
All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.
Who acts: clownfish, biggest one · What happens: hatch, turn · To what, where: female
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 (clownfish, biggest 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 clownfish | det |
| 2 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hatch | nsubj |
| 3 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 males | case |
| 5 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hatch | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turn | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 group | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | aux |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hatch | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 female | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 female | det |
| 18 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hatch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | present | all clownfish | as males | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | can | the biggest one in a group | the female | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory |
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:6.
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 ×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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