--- title: Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and ma… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics description: Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and many also have strong poison. Who acts: Pufferfish, many. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/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/) / [The aquarium: the coral reef tank](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/) / 12 # The aquarium: the coral reef tank, sentence 12 Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and many also have strong poison. **Who acts:** Pufferfish, many · **What happens:** swallow, blow up, have · **To what, where:** water, prickly ball, strong poison This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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 (Pufferfish, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.lesson:12 # text = Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and many also have strong poison. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Pufferfish Pufferfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ _ 15 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 . . 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 | **swallow** | present | Pufferfish | water | | | | fast *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **blow up** | to-infinitive | Pufferfish *not said here* | | | a prickly ball | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into ball=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | many | strong poison | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=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:090-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank.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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/9/) - next →: [The aquarium: the coral reef tank, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/)