Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 9

The Himalayan jumping spider lives over six thousand metres above sea level, higher than almost any other animal, eating insects blown up by the wind.

Who acts: Himalayan jumping spider · What happens: jump, live, eat, blow up · To what, where: thousand metres, sea level, 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 (Himalayan jumping 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spider	det
2	Himalayan	himalayan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spider	amod
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 spider	amod
4	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	8 thousand	advmod
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thousand	compound
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lives	obl:unmarked
10	above	above	ADP	_	12 level	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 level	compound
12	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 higher	punct
14	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lives	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	19 animal	case
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 animal	advmod
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 animal	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animal	amod
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 higher	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eating	punct
21	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lives	advcl
22	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eating	obj
23	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 insects	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 blown	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	the Himalayan jumping spider	thousand metres	sea level		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above level=Location
3	eat	gerund	the Himalayan jumping spider not said here	insects			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
4	blow up	participle		insects not said here		by the wind	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:9.

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 ×3. 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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