The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 7
The blue tang has a sharp spine near its tail that it uses like a scalpel for defence.
Who acts: blue tang, tang · What happens: have, use · To what, where: sharp spine, tail
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 (blue tang, tang), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tang | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tang | amod |
| 3 | tang | tang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spine | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spine | amod |
| 7 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 tail | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spine | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 uses | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 uses | nsubj |
| 13 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spine | acl:relcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 scalpel | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scalpel | det |
| 16 | scalpel | scalpel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uses | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 defence | case |
| 18 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scalpel | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the blue tang | a sharp spine | tang's tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | present | tang | a sharp spine | like a scalpel for defence | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:7.
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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