Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 10
In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.
Who acts: many house spiders, males · What happens: run, wander, search · To what, where: floor, search, females
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 (many house spiders, males), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obl |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spiders | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spiders | compound |
| 5 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 run | nsubj |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 wandering | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 males | det |
| 12 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wandering | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandering | aux |
| 14 | wandering | wander | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 run | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wandering | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 females | case |
| 18 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 search | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | many house spiders | the floor | autumn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wander | present · progressive | the males | search of females | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | search | females | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:10.
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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