The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 4

Cartoons borrow a few true features, like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob, and invent the rest, so a good scientist checks which parts are real.

Who acts: Cartoons, good scientist, parts · What happens: borrow, invent, check, be · To what, where: few true features, rest

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 (Cartoons, good scientist, parts), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	nsubj
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 features	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 features	amod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 features	amod
6	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arms	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 arms	case
9	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 arms	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Patrick	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 arms	nummod
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 features	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 SpongeBob	case
14	SpongeBob	SpongeBob	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 arms	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 invent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 invent	cc
17	invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 borrow	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 invent	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 checks	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 checks	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 scientist	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 scientist	amod
24	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 checks	nsubj
25	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 invent	advcl
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 parts	det
27	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 real	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 real	cop
29	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 checks	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 borrow	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	borrow	present	Cartoons	a few true features	like Patrick's five arms in SpongeBob	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Theme
2	invent	present	Cartoons not said here	the rest		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Result
3	check	present	a good scientist			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	which parts		real property	tree rules

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:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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