The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 14

A sea star has no brain, can regrow a lost arm, and has a simple eye spot at the tip of each arm that senses light.

Who acts: sea star, arm · What happens: have, regrow, lose, sense · To what, where: brain, lost arm, simple eye spot, tip, light

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, arm), 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 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 regrow	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 regrow	aux
9	regrow	regrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 arm	det
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 arm	amod
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regrow	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spot	det
17	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spot	amod
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spot	compound
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 tip	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tip	det
22	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spot	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 arm	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 arm	det
25	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tip	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 senses	nsubj
27	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 arm	acl:relcl
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 senses	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a sea star	no brain		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	regrow	can	a sea star not said here	a lost arm		tree rules
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	a sea star not said here	a simple eye spot	the tip of each arm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
5	sense	present	each arm	light		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:14.

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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