--- title: The hagfish is an eel-shaped fish with no jaws; when grabbed it lets… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: The hagfish is an eel-shaped fish with no jaws; when grabbed it lets out slime that becomes a bucketful of goo in seconds and clogs an attacker's gills, and it ties itself in a knot to wipe the slime off. Who acts: hagfish, slime. 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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 (hagfish, slime), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:15 # text = The hagfish is an eel-shaped fish with no jaws; when grabbed it lets out slime that becomes a bucketful of goo in seconds and clogs an attacker's gills, and it ties itself in a knot to wipe the slime off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hagfish hagfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 grabbed grab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bucketful bucketful NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 goo goo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 clogs clog VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 attacker attacker NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ties tie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 knot knot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 wipe wipe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:acl 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | present | the hagfish | a shaped fish | | | | with no jaws | tree rules | | 3 | **grab** | participle | hagfish *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **let out** | present | hagfish | slime | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slime=Theme | | 5 | **become** | present | slime | a bucketful of goo | | | second | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **clog** | present | slime *not said here* | a attacker's gills | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gill=Destination | | 7 | **tie** | present | hagfish | hagfish | | a knot | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 8 | **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 | 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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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