The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 13
A sea star opens a mussel by pulling with its tube feet until the mussel tires, then pushes its stomach out of its mouth into the shell.
Who acts: sea star · What happens: open, pull, tire, push out · To what, where: mussel, stomach, shell
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 (sea star), 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 | 3 star | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 star | compound |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mussel | det |
| 6 | mussel | mussel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 pulling | mark |
| 8 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 opens | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | compound |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pulling | obl |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 tires | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tires | det |
| 15 | mussel | mussel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tires | compound |
| 16 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pulling | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pushes | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 pushes | advmod |
| 19 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opens | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 21 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushes | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 pushes | compound:prt |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stomach | nmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 shell | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shell | det |
| 28 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushes | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a sea star | a mussel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mussel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a sea star not said here | with mussel's tube feet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | tire | present | a sea star not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | push out | present | a sea star not said here | mussel's stomach of mussel's mouth | the shell | then | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme into shell=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:13.
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): R5-strong ×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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