--- title: A jellyfish on the beach can still sting even if it looks dead. — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: A jellyfish on the beach can still sting even if it looks dead. Who acts: jellyfish. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday 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/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/20/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respecting wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/) / 20 # Respecting wild animals, sentence 20 A jellyfish on the beach can still sting even if it looks dead. **Who acts:** jellyfish · **What happens:** sting, look This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:20 # text = A jellyfish on the beach can still sting even if it looks dead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 070-respecting-wild-animals.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 . . 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 | **sting** | can | a jellyfish the beach | | | | still | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | jellyfish | | | | | dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:20`. **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): no change. **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: [Respecting wild animals, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/19/) - next →: [Respecting wild animals, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/)