Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 3

Even near the top of Mount Everest, where nothing grows, a tiny jumping spider lives by eating insects that the wind blows up from below.

Who acts: nothing, tiny jumping spider, wind · What happens: grow, jump, live, eat, blow up · To what, where: top, insects

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (nothing, tiny jumping spider, wind), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 top	advmod
2	near	near	ADP	_	4 top	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 top	det
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lives	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Everest	case
6	Mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Everest	compound
7	Everest	everest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 top	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grows	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 grows	advmod
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 top	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tiny	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spider	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spider	amod
15	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spider	amod
16	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lives	nsubj
17	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 eating	mark
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lives	advcl
20	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eating	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 blows	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blows	nsubj
24	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 insects	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 blows	compound:prt
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 below	case
27	below	below	ADV	_	24 blows	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	nothing			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jump	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	present	a tiny jumping spider		the top of Mount Everest	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near top=Location
4	eat	gerund	a tiny jumping spider not said here	insects		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
5	blow up	present	the wind	insects		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient from below=Co-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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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