Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 1

The spider waits in a corner with one foot on a thread, and when a fly hits the web it feels the shaking, like someone feeling a phone buzz in their pocket.

Who acts: spider, fly, it, someone · What happens: wait, hit, feel · To what, where: corner, web, shaking, phone buzz, pocket

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (spider, fly, it, someone), 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	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	nsubj
3	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 foot	nummod
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 thread	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thread	det
12	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 foot	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feels	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 feels	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 hits	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fly	det
17	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hits	nsubj
18	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 feels	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 web	det
20	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hits	obj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 feels	nsubj
22	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waits	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shaking	det
24	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feels	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feeling	punct
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	28 feeling	mark
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 feeling	nsubj
28	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 feels	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 buzz	det
30	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 buzz	compound
31	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feeling	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 pocket	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pocket	nmod:poss
34	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feeling	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	present	the spider		a corner with one foot on a thread	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
2	hit	present	a fly	the web		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme web=Co-Theme
3	feel	present	it	the shaking		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaking=Theme
4	feel	gerund	someone	a phone buzz	webs's pocket	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme in pocket=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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:1.

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, R5-strong ×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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