--- title: A starfish pushes its stomach out of its body onto its food and dige… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: A starfish pushes its stomach out of its body onto its food and digests the food outside; many Antarctic starfish are big and live for many years. Who acts: starfish, many Antarctic starfish. A sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» of the bio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colos…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/) / 13 # The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 13 A starfish pushes its stomach out of its body onto its food and digests the food outside; many Antarctic starfish are big and live for many years. **Who acts:** starfish, many Antarctic starfish · **What happens:** push, digest, be, live · **To what, where:** stomach, body, food This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (starfish, many Antarctic starfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:13 # text = A starfish pushes its stomach out of its body onto its food and digests the food outside; many Antarctic starfish are big and live for many years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 onto onto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 digests digest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 outside outside ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Antarctic Antarctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 21 starfish starfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | a starfish | starfish's stomach | | starfish's body | | onto starfish's food | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme onto food=Destination out body=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **digest** | present | a starfish *not said here* | the food | | | | outside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | many Antarctic starfish | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present | many Antarctic starfish *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:13`. **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 ×2. **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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