Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 8
The Brazilian wandering spider is one of the most venomous spiders; it wanders at night instead of making webs and sometimes hides in bananas, but bites are rare and an antivenom exists.
Who acts: Brazilian wandering spider, scorpion, bites, antivenom · What happens: be, wander, make, hide, exist · To what, where: one, webs, bananas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (Brazilian wandering spider, scorpion, bites, antivenom), 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 | Brazilian | Brazilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spider | amod |
| 3 | wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | compound |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 spiders | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spiders | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 venomous | advmod |
| 10 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spiders | amod |
| 11 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanders | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanders | nsubj |
| 14 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spider | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanders | obl |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 making | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 spider | acl |
| 20 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hides | cc |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 hides | advmod |
| 23 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 making | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bananas | case |
| 25 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hides | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rare | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 rare | cc |
| 28 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rare | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 rare | cop |
| 30 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 exists | cc |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 antivenom | det |
| 33 | antivenom | antivenom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 exists | nsubj |
| 34 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 rare | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 rare | 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 Brazilian wandering spider | one | of the venomous spiders | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wander | present | scorpion | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the Brazilian wandering spider not said here | webs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | the Brazilian wandering spider not said here | bananas | sometimes property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in banana=Location | |||
| 5 | is | present | bites | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | exist | present | a antivenom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:8.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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