The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 5
Clownfish live among stinging anemone tentacles without being stung, thanks to a special slime; the fish gets safety and the anemone gets scraps and cleaning.
Who acts: Clownfish, fish, anemone · What happens: live, sting, get · To what, where: stinging anemone tentacles, safety, scraps
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 (Clownfish, fish, anemone), 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 | Clownfish | clownfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 tentacles | case |
| 4 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tentacles | amod |
| 5 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tentacles | compound |
| 6 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 stung | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stung | aux:pass |
| 9 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 live | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stung | punct |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stung | discourse |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 slime | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 slime | det |
| 14 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slime | amod |
| 15 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gets | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gets | nsubj |
| 19 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | parataxis |
| 20 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gets | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gets | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 anemone | det |
| 23 | anemone | anemone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gets | nsubj |
| 24 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gets | conj |
| 25 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gets | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cleaning | cc |
| 27 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scraps | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Clownfish | stinging anemone tentacles | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tentacle=Location | ||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sting | gerund · passive | Clownfish not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | get | present | the fish | safety | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer safety=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | get | present | the anemone | scraps and cleaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scrap=Stimulus |
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:5.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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