The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 12
Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and many also have strong poison.
Who acts: Pufferfish, many · What happens: swallow, blow up, have · To what, where: water, prickly ball, strong poison
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 (Pufferfish, many), 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 | Pufferfish | Pufferfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swallow | nsubj |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swallow | obj |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 swallow | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 blow | mark |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swallow | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 blow | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 ball | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ball | det |
| 10 | prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ball | amod |
| 11 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swallow | conj |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poison | amod |
| 18 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | Pufferfish | water | fast property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 2 | blow up | to-infinitive | Pufferfish not said here | a prickly ball | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into ball=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | present | many | strong poison | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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