--- title: A jellyfish pulses in its blue-lit round tank with no brain, no hear… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics description: A jellyfish pulses in its blue-lit round tank with no brain, no heart and no bones, yet it swims, catches food and grows, steered by a simple net of nerves. Who acts: jellyfish, aquarium. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/92-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea/1/) [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: jellyfish, octopuses, se…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/92-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea/) / 1 # The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 1 A jellyfish pulses in its blue-lit round tank with no brain, no heart and no bones, yet it swims, catches food and grows, steered by a simple net of nerves. **Who acts:** jellyfish, aquarium · **What happens:** pulse, lit, swim, catch, grow, steer · **To what, where:** blue lit round tank, food This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (jellyfish, aquarium), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:1 # text = A jellyfish pulses in its blue-lit round tank with no brain, no heart and no bones, yet it swims, catches food and grows, steered by a simple net of nerves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulses pulse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 6 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 steered steer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pulse** | present | a jellyfish | | | aquarium's blue lit round tank | | with no brain and no heart and no bones | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location | | 2 | **lit** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | present | aquarium | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | present | aquarium *not said here* | food | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | aquarium *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **steer** | participle | | | | | | by a simple net of nerves | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by net=Destination | 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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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