Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 4
Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you with two big front eyes, ties on a safety thread and leaps onto a fly many times its own length away.
Who acts: you, fly · What happens: watch, jump, turn, look, tie, leap · To what, where: jumping spider, windowsill
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 (you, 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spider | det |
| 3 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 spider | amod |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 windowsill | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 windowsill | det |
| 7 | windowsill | windowsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 turns | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 windowsill | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looks | punct |
| 12 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turns | conj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 you | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 looks | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 eyes | nummod |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 19 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looks | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ties | punct |
| 22 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 looks | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 thread | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thread | det |
| 25 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thread | compound |
| 26 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ties | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 leaps | cc |
| 28 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 looks | conj |
| 29 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 31 fly | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fly | det |
| 31 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaps | obl |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 times | amod |
| 33 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 length | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 length | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 length | amod |
| 36 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 away | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 leaps | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | a jumping spider | a windowsill | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn | present | fly | a windowsill not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme windowsill=Result | ||||
| 4 | look | present | fly not said here | at you; with two big front eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tie | present | fly not said here | on a safety thread | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on thread=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | leap | present | fly not said here | onto a fly; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fly=Trajectory |
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:4.
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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