The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 0
Stand in front of the reef tank and it looks like a busy town under water: clownfish tucked into waving anemones, a blue tang like Dory gliding past, a cleaner wrasse swimming into a big fish's mouth and coming out safe.
Who acts: you, tank, Dory, cleaner wrasse · What happens: stand, look, tuck, wave, glide, swim · To what, where: front, clownfish, waving anemones, mouth
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (you, tank, Dory, cleaner wrasse), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 front | case |
| 3 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tank | det |
| 6 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tank | compound |
| 7 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 front | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looks | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 13 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 town | amod |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | obl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 town | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 clownfish | punct |
| 18 | clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stand | appos |
| 19 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 clownfish | acl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 anemones | case |
| 21 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 anemones | amod |
| 22 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tucked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tang | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tang | det |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tang | amod |
| 26 | tang | tang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clownfish | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 Dory | case |
| 28 | Dory | dory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tang | nmod |
| 29 | gliding | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Dory | acl |
| 30 | past | past | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 gliding | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wrasse | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 wrasse | det |
| 33 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wrasse | compound |
| 34 | wrasse | wrasse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clownfish | conj |
| 35 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 wrasse | acl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 mouth | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fish | det |
| 38 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fish | amod |
| 39 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 fish | case |
| 41 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 swimming | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 coming | cc |
| 43 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 swimming | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 43 coming | advmod |
| 45 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 coming | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | front of the reef tank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | present | tank | like a busy town under water | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tuck | participle | clownfish and a blue tang like Dory and a cleaner wrasse not said here | waving anemones | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into anemone=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | glide | gerund | Dory not said here | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swim | gerund | a cleaner wrasse not said here | a big fish's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination | ||||
| 7 | come out | gerund | a cleaner wrasse not said here | out, safe property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:0.
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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