The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 6

Jellyfish are not fish: they are relatives of corals and sea anemones, and fish have backbones, gills and fins while jellyfish have none of these.

Who acts: Jellyfish, fish · What happens: not be, be, have · To what, where: fish, relatives, backbones, none

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, fish), 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	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fish	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fish	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fish	advmod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 relatives	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 relatives	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 relatives	cop
8	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fish	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 corals	case
10	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 relatives	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 anemones	cc
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 anemones	compound
13	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 corals	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 relatives	conj
18	backbones	backbone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gills	punct
20	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 backbones	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fins	cc
22	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 backbones	conj
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 have	advcl
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 have	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 these	case
28	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 none	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Jellyfish	fish		tree rules
2	is a	present	jellyfish	relatives	of corals and sea anemones	tree rules
3	have	present	fish	backbones and gills and fins		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient
4	have	present	jellyfish	none		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

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:6.

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, 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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