--- title: The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast that a bubble forms and bur… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast that a bubble forms and bursts with a loud crack that stuns small fish, and for an instant the bubble is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun. Who acts: pistol shrimp, bubble, loud crack. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pistol shrimp, bubble, loud crack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:5 # text = The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast that a bubble forms and bursts with a loud crack that stuns small fish, and for an instant the bubble is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pistol pistol NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fast fast ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stuns stun VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Sun. Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snap** | present | the pistol shrimp | shrimp's claw | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location claw=Theme | | 2 | **form** | present | a bubble | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **burst** | present | a bubble *not said here* | | | | | with a loud crack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stun** | present | a loud crack | small fish | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | the bubble | | | | | for a instant; as the surface of the Sun.; hot, nearly *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](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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:5`. **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. **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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