The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 14

Seahorses are fish that swim upright and grip seaweed with curly tails; the male carries the eggs in a pouch until the babies hatch.

Who acts: Seahorses, fish, male, babies · What happens: be, swim, grip, carry, hatch · To what, where: fish, seaweed, eggs, pouch

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 (Seahorses, fish, male, babies), 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	Seahorses	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fish	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fish	cop
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swim	nsubj
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fish	acl:relcl
6	upright	upright	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grip	cc
8	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	conj
9	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grip	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tails	case
11	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tails	amod
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grip	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 carries	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 male	det
15	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carries	nsubj
16	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fish	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eggs	det
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carries	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 pouch	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pouch	det
21	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carries	obl
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 hatch	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 babies	det
24	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hatch	nsubj
25	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 carries	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fish	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Seahorses	fish			tree rules
2	swim	present	fish			upright property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grip	present	fish not said here	seaweed		with curly tails	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent seaweed=Experiencer with tail=Instrument
4	carry	present	the male	the eggs	a pouch		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location
5	hatch	present	the babies				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: 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:14.

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): no change. 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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