Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 13

Millipedes are slow, eat dead plants, have two pairs of legs on most body segments, and curl into a tight coil to protect themselves.

Who acts: Millipedes · What happens: be, eat, have, curl, protect · To what, where: dead plants, two pairs, most body segments, tight coil, plants

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 (Millipedes), 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	Millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	cop
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slow	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pairs	nummod
11	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 legs	case
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pairs	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 segments	case
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 segments	amod
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 segments	compound
17	segments	segment	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pairs	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 curl	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 curl	cc
20	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 coil	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coil	det
23	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coil	amod
24	coil	coil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curl	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 protect	mark
26	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 curl	advcl
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 protect	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Millipedes			slow property	tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	Millipedes not said here	dead plants			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
3	have	present	Millipedes not said here	two pairs of legs	most body segments		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
4	curl	present	Millipedes not said here		a tight coil		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coil=Destination
5	protect	to-infinitive	Millipedes not said here	plants = plant			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary

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:13.

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.

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