--- title: The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colony of tiny an… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals floating under a gas-filled sail, with stinging tentacles that can trail over 10 metres; even a dead one on the beach can sting. Who acts: Portuguese man, tiny animals, tentacles, dead one. A sentence of the lesson «Coral reef --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 16 The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals floating under a gas-filled sail, with stinging tentacles that can trail over 10 metres; even a dead one on the beach can sting. **Who acts:** Portuguese man, tiny animals, tentacles, dead one · **What happens:** not be, float, fill, sting, trail · **To what, where:** jellyfish, filled sail, tentacles, 10 metres 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 (Portuguese man, tiny animals, tentacles, dead one), 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:16 # text = The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals floating under a gas-filled sail, with stinging tentacles that can trail over 10 metres; even a dead one on the beach can sting. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Portuguese Portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 6 case _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 with with SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 27 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 trail trail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the Portuguese man of war | a jellyfish but a colony of tiny animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | gerund | tiny animals *not said here* | | | a filled sail | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sail=Trajectory | | 3 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **sting** | gerund | the Portuguese man of war *not said here* | tentacles | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tentacle=Experiencer | | 5 | **trail** | can | tentacles | 10 metres | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sting** | can | a dead one on the beach | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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