Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 14
Beetles are insects with six legs; beetles that live under stones help to break down dead plants and animals.
Who acts: Beetles · What happens: be, live, help, break down · To what, where: insects, stones, dead 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 (Beetles), 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 | Beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 insects | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 insects | cop |
| 3 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 legs | nummod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 insects | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 beetles | punct |
| 8 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beetles | acl:relcl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 insects | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 break | compound:prt |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plants | amod |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 break | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 animals | cc |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plants | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 insects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Beetles | insects | with six legs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | beetles | stones | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | help | present | beetles | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break down | to-infinitive | beetles not said here | dead plants and animals | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:14.
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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