Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 14
The redback spider is a cousin of the black widow and hides in dry sheltered places, which is why Australians check under outdoor toilet seats and garden chairs.
Who acts: redback spider, dry sheltered places, Australians · What happens: be, hide, shelter, check · To what, where: cousin, dry sheltered places, outdoor toilet seats
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 (redback spider, dry sheltered places, Australians), 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 spider | det |
| 2 | redback | redback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spider | compound |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cousin | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cousin | det |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 widow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 widow | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 widow | amod |
| 10 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hides | cc |
| 12 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 widow | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 places | amod |
| 15 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 places | amod |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hides | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 why | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 why | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | cop |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 places | acl:relcl |
| 21 | Australians | Australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 check | nsubj |
| 22 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | ccomp |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 seats | case |
| 24 | outdoor | outdoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seats | amod |
| 25 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seats | compound |
| 26 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 check | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 chairs | cc |
| 28 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chairs | compound |
| 29 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 seats | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cousin | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the redback spider | a cousin | of the black widow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | present | the redback spider not said here | dry sheltered places | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | dry sheltered places | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | check | present | Australians | outdoor toilet seats and garden chairs | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under seat=Location |
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:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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