--- title: Starfish move on hundreds of tiny tube feet worked by water pressure… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: Starfish move on hundreds of tiny tube feet worked by water pressure, push their stomach into a mussel's shell to digest it, can regrow lost arms, and have no brain. Who acts: Starfish. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/12/) [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/) / [Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/) / 12 # Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 12 Starfish move on hundreds of tiny tube feet worked by water pressure, push their stomach into a mussel's shell to digest it, can regrow lost arms, and have no brain. **Who acts:** Starfish · **What happens:** move, work, push, digest, regrow, lose · **To what, where:** hundreds, tiny tube feet, stomach, shell, lost arms, brain This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:12 # text = Starfish move on hundreds of tiny tube feet worked by water pressure, push their stomach into a mussel's shell to digest it, can regrow lost arms, and have no brain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.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 ×1 1 Starfish starfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 7 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mussel mussel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 28 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **move** | present | Starfish | | | hundreds of tiny tube feet | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hundred=Trajectory | | 2 | **work** | participle | | tiny tube feet *not said here* | | | | by water pressure | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **push** | present | Starfish *not said here* | hundreds's stomach | | a mussel's shell | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme into shell=Destination | | 4 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Starfish *not said here* | stomach | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **regrow** | can | Starfish *not said here* | lost arms | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | present | Starfish *not said here* | no brain | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:009-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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