The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 2
A tapir slips into a stream to escape, a jaguar cracks a turtle shell with one bite, and a Goliath birdeater spider as wide as a dinner plate eats a big insect on a leaf.
Who acts: tapir, jaguar, birdeater spider · What happens: slip, escape, crack, eat · To what, where: stream, turtle shell, big insect, leaf
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 (tapir, jaguar, birdeater spider), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tapir | det |
| 2 | tapir | tapir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slips | nsubj |
| 3 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 stream | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slips | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slips | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cracks | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 jaguar | det |
| 11 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cracks | nsubj |
| 12 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slips | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shell | det |
| 14 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shell | compound |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cracks | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bite | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bite | nummod |
| 18 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cracks | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eats | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 eats | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spider | det |
| 22 | Goliath | Goliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 birdeater | compound |
| 23 | birdeater | birdeater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spider | compound |
| 24 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eats | nsubj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 wide | advmod |
| 26 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 24 spider | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 plate | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 plate | det |
| 29 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 plate | compound |
| 30 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wide | obl |
| 31 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slips | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 insect | det |
| 33 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 insect | amod |
| 34 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eats | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 leaf | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 leaf | det |
| 37 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 insect | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | present | a tapir | a stream | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | a tapir not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crack | present | a jaguar | a turtle shell | with one bite | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shell=Patient with bite=Instrument | |||
| 4 | eat | present | a birdeater spider | a big insect | a leaf | 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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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