Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 3
On an autumn morning, look at a hedge: dew sparkles on dozens of round webs you never noticed, each with a garden spider waiting in the middle, feeling for the shiver of a trapped fly.
Who acts: you, dew, garden spider, trapped fly · What happens: look, sparkle, not notice, wait, feel, trap · To what, where: dozens, round webs, middle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» 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 (you, dew, garden spider, trapped fly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 hedge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hedge | det |
| 9 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sparkles | punct |
| 11 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sparkles | nsubj |
| 12 | sparkles | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 dozens | case |
| 14 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sparkles | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 webs | case |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 webs | amod |
| 17 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dozens | nmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 noticed | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 noticed | advmod |
| 20 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 webs | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spider | punct |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 spider | det |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 spider | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spider | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spider | compound |
| 26 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 webs | appos |
| 27 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 spider | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 middle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 middle | det |
| 30 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waiting | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feeling | punct |
| 32 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 waiting | advcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 shiver | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 shiver | det |
| 35 | shiver | shiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feeling | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 fly | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fly | det |
| 38 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 fly | amod |
| 39 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shiver | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
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 | look | imperative | you not said here | morning | at a hedge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hedge=Theme | |||
| 2 | sparkle | present | dew | dozens of round webs | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dozen=Location | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past | you | round webs not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer web=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | each garden spider not said here | the middle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | each garden spider not said here | for the shiver of a trapped fly | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for shiver=Theme | ||||
| 6 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | shiver | a trapped fly | nom shiver «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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, 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:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:3.
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, 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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