The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 17

In SpongeBob, Patrick is a sea star and Squidward is named like a squid, but his creator said he is an octopus, drawn with six legs instead of eight arms; a real sea sponge, like SpongeBob's namesake, is a simple animal with no brain that filters water.

Who acts: Patrick, creator, real sea sponge, brain · What happens: be, name, say, draw, filter · To what, where: sea star, SpongeBob, Squidward, octopus, simple animal, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Patrick, creator, real sea sponge, brain), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 SpongeBob	case
2	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 star	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 SpongeBob	punct
4	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 star	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 star	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 star	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	compound
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 animal	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 named	cc
10	Squidward	Squidward	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 named	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 named	aux:pass
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 star	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 squid	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 squid	det
15	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 named	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 creator	nmod:poss
19	creator	creator	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 star	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 octopus	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 octopus	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 octopus	det
24	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drawn	punct
26	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 octopus	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 legs	case
28	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 legs	nummod
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drawn	obl
30	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	33 arms	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 instead	fixed
32	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 arms	nummod
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drawn	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 animal	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sponge	det
36	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sponge	amod
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sponge	compound
38	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 animal	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 namesake	punct
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 namesake	case
41	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 namesake	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 SpongeBob	case
43	namesake	namesake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sponge	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 animal	punct
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 animal	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 animal	det
47	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 animal	amod
48	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 brain	case
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 brain	det
51	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 animal	nmod
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 filters	nsubj
53	filters	filter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 brain	acl:relcl
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 filters	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 star	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Patrick	a sea star	SpongeBob		tree rules
2	name	present · passive		Squidward		like a squid	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Squidward's creator				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	creator	a octopus			tree rules
5	draw	participle		a octopus not said here		with six legs; instead eight arms	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	a real sea sponge and SpongeBob's namesake	a simple animal and a sea star		with no brain	tree rules
7	filter	present	no brain	water			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Initial_Location

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:17.

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): R6-punct-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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