The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 6
All clownfish are born male, and when the female of a group dies, the biggest male turns into a female.
Who acts: female, biggest male · What happens: bear, die, turn · To what, where: clownfish, female
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 (female, biggest male), 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 | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 born | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turns | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turns | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 dies | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 female | det |
| 10 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dies | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 group | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 female | nmod |
| 14 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turns | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dies | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 male | det |
| 17 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 male | amod |
| 18 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turns | nsubj |
| 19 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 female | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 female | det |
| 22 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turns | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | all clownfish | male property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | present | the female of a group | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | the biggest male | a 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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): 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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