--- title: In SpongeBob SquarePants Patrick Star is famously brainless, and tha… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics description: In SpongeBob SquarePants Patrick Star is famously brainless, and that is the one true joke: a real starfish has no brain at all, yet it walks on hundreds of tube feet and eats mussels with its stomach pushed out of its body. Who acts: Patrick Star, that, real starfish, starfish. 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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 (Patrick Star, that, real starfish, 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:4 # text = In SpongeBob SquarePants Patrick Star is famously brainless, and that is the one true joke: a real starfish has no brain at all, yet it walks on hundreds of tube feet and eats mussels with its stomach pushed out of its body. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 SpongeBob SpongeBob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 SquarePants SquarePants PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 Patrick Patrick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 famously famously ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 brainless brainless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 mussels mussel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 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 | **is** | present | Patrick Star | | | SpongeBob SquarePants | | brainless, famously *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | that | the one true joke | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a real starfish | no brain | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | | 4 | **walk** | present | starfish | | | hundreds of tube feet | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hundred=Trajectory | | 5 | **eat** | present | starfish *not said here* | mussels | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Patient | | 6 | **push out** | participle | starfish's stomach *not said here* | starfish's body | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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