The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 1
A jellyfish pulses in its blue-lit round tank with no brain, no heart and no bones, yet it swims, catches food and grows, steered by a simple net of nerves.
Who acts: jellyfish, aquarium · What happens: pulse, lit, swim, catch, grow, steer · To what, where: blue lit round tank, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (jellyfish, aquarium), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jellyfish | det |
| 2 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulses | nsubj |
| 3 | pulses | pulse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tank | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tank | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tank | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 blue | punct |
| 8 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tank | amod |
| 9 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tank | compound |
| 10 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulses | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 brain | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 brain | det |
| 13 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulses | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brain | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bones | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bones | det |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brain | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swims | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 swims | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swims | nsubj |
| 23 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulses | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 catches | punct |
| 25 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 swims | conj |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 catches | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grows | cc |
| 28 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 swims | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 steered | punct |
| 30 | steered | steer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pulses | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 net | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 net | det |
| 33 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 net | amod |
| 34 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steered | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 nerves | case |
| 36 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 net | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulses | 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 | pulse | present | a jellyfish | aquarium's blue lit round tank | with no brain and no heart and no bones | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location | |||
| 2 | lit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | swim | present | aquarium | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | present | aquarium not said here | food | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | aquarium not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | steer | participle | by a simple net of nerves | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by net=Destination |
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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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