The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 11

The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world, with a leg span like a dinner plate, and mostly eats insects, worms and frogs, only rarely a bird.

Who acts: Goliath birdeater · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: heaviest spider, world, insects

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (Goliath birdeater), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birdeater	det
2	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 birdeater	compound
3	birdeater	birdeater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spider	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 spider	amod
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 span	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 span	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 span	det
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 span	compound
15	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	nmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 plate	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plate	det
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plate	compound
19	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 span	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eats	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eats	cc
22	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	23 eats	advmod
23	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spider	conj
24	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eats	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 worms	punct
26	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 insects	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 frogs	cc
28	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 insects	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bird	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 bird	advmod
31	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	33 bird	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 insects	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spider	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Goliath birdeater	the heaviest spider		the world		with a leg span like a dinner plate	tree rules
2	eat	present	the Goliath birdeater not said here	insects and worms and frogs				mostly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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, R8-pos-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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