--- title: A sea star opens a mussel by pulling with its tube feet until the mu… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics description: A sea star opens a mussel by pulling with its tube feet until the mussel tires, then pushes its stomach out of its mouth into the shell. Who acts: sea star. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 13 A sea star opens a mussel by pulling with its tube feet until the mussel tires, then pushes its stomach out of its mouth into the shell. **Who acts:** sea star · **What happens:** open, pull, tire, push out · **To what, where:** mussel, stomach, shell 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 (sea star), 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:13 # text = A sea star opens a mussel by pulling with its tube feet until the mussel tires, then pushes its stomach out of its mouth into the shell. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mussel mussel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 mussel mussel NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 tires tire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 out out ADV RB _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | a sea star | a mussel | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mussel=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | gerund | a sea star *not said here* | | | | | with mussel's tube feet | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary | | 3 | **tire** | present | a sea star *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **push out** | present | a sea star *not said here* | mussel's stomach of mussel's mouth | | the shell | then | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stomach=Theme into shell=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:13`. **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 ×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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