The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 7
A small jellyfish called Turritopsis can turn back from an adult into a young stage when hurt or stressed, but it can still be eaten or fall ill, so it is not truly immortal.
Who acts: small jellyfish, stage · What happens: call, turn back, hurt, stress, eat, fall · To what, where: small jellyfish, young stage, stage · 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 (small jellyfish, stage), 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 jellyfish | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jellyfish | amod |
| 3 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jellyfish | acl |
| 5 | Turritopsis | Turritopsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | aux |
| 7 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 turn | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 adult | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 adult | det |
| 11 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 stage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stage | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stage | amod |
| 15 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 hurt | advmod |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turn | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 stressed | cc |
| 19 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hurt | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eaten | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 eaten | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 eaten | aux |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 eaten | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 eaten | aux:pass |
| 26 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turn | conj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 fall | cc |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 eaten | conj |
| 29 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fall | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 immortal | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 immortal | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 immortal | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 immortal | cop |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 immortal | advmod |
| 35 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 36 immortal | advmod |
| 36 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turn | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a small jellyfish not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn back | can | a small jellyfish | a young stage | from a adult | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from adult=Source | |||
| 3 | hurt | participle | a small jellyfish not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stress | participle | a small jellyfish not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | eat | can · passive | stage | still | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall | infinitive | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not is | present | stage | immortal, truly 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:7.
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, R7-rel-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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