--- title: Hagfish make huge amounts of slime when attacked, enough to fill a b… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics description: Hagfish make huge amounts of slime when attacked, enough to fill a bucket in seconds, and they tie themselves in knots to wipe the slime off and to tear food. Who acts: Hagfish. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/11/) [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 deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/) / 11 # The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 11 Hagfish make huge amounts of slime when attacked, enough to fill a bucket in seconds, and they tie themselves in knots to wipe the slime off and to tear food. **Who acts:** Hagfish · **What happens:** make, attack, fill, tie, wipe off, tear · **To what, where:** huge amounts, bucket, hagfish, knots, slime, food This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (Hagfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:11 # text = Hagfish make huge amounts of slime when attacked, enough to fill a bucket in seconds, and they tie themselves in knots to wipe the slime off and to tear food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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): no change 1 Hagfish hagfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tie tie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Hagfish | huge amounts of slime | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product | | 2 | **attack** | participle | | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Hagfish *not said here* | a bucket | | | second | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient | | 4 | **tie** | present | hagfish | hagfish | | knots | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 5 | **wipe off** | to-infinitive | hagfish *not said here* | the slime | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent slime=Source | | 6 | **tear** | to-infinitive | hagfish *not said here* | food | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location food=Theme | | 7 | **amount** | | | slime | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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](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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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