Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 13

Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the bath usually fell in or came from outside, not up the drain.

Who acts: Spiders · What happens: struggle, fell in, come · To what, where: smooth wet surfaces, drain

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 (Spiders), 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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 struggle	nsubj
2	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 surfaces	case
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 smooth	advmod
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surfaces	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smooth	punct
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 surfaces	amod
8	surfaces	surface	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 struggle	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spider	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 spider	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spider	det
12	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struggle	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bath	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bath	det
15	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spider	nmod
16	usually	usually	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
17	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spider	advcl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fell	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 outside	case
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drain	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 drain	advmod
25	up	up	ADP	_	27 drain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 drain	det
27	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	struggle	present	Spiders	smooth wet surfaces		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fell in	past	Spiders not said here		usually property	tree rules
3	come	past	Spiders not said here	the drain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from outside=Initial_Location up drain=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, 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: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): 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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