---
title: The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics
description: The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though most are eaten. Who acts: immortal jellyfish, jellyfish. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» of th
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/) / 9

# Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though most are eaten.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** immortal jellyfish, jellyfish · **What happens:** turn back, stick, hurt, go, eat · **To what, where:** young polyp, tiny baby stage, jellyfish, theory, most

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (immortal jellyfish, jellyfish), 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:9
# text = The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though most are eaten.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	polyp	polyp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	nsubj	_	_
39	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | can | the immortal jellyfish |  |  | a young polyp |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stick** | participle |  | a tiny baby stage *not said here* |  |  |  | to a rock | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to rock=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | jellyfish |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | could | jellyfish |  |  | theory |  | forever *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in theory=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | present · passive |  | most |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:9`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/8/)
- next →: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the l…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/10/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/)

