Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 11
Tarantulas are mostly gentle; their bite is usually no worse than a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs to defend themselves.
Who acts: Tarantulas, bite, some · What happens: be, not be, flick, defend, bite · To what, where: itchy hairs, hairs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» 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 (Tarantulas, bite, some), 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 | Tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gentle | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gentle | cop |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 gentle | advmod |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bite | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worse | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worse | cop |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 worse | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 worse | advmod |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 gentle | parataxis |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 sting | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sting | det |
| 14 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sting | compound |
| 15 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worse | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flick | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flick | cc |
| 18 | some | some | PRON | PronType=Ind | 19 flick | nsubj |
| 19 | flick | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gentle | conj |
| 20 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hairs | amod |
| 21 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flick | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 defend | mark |
| 23 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 flick | advcl |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 defend | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tarantulas | gentle, mostly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Tarantulas's bite | than a bee sting; bad, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flick | infinitive | some | itchy hairs | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | defend | to-infinitive | some not said here | hairs = hair | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | bite | Tarantulas = tarantula | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:11.
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): 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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