Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 6
A garden spider often waits in a corner of its web holding a signal thread, and feels the web shake when an insect is caught.
Who acts: garden spider · What happens: wait, hold, feel, catch · To what, where: corner, signal thread, web shake, insect
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 (garden spider), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spider | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spider | compound |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waits | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 waits | advmod |
| 5 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waits | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 web | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 web | nmod:poss |
| 11 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corner | nmod |
| 12 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 waits | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thread | det |
| 14 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thread | compound |
| 15 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feels | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feels | cc |
| 18 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waits | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shake | det |
| 20 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shake | compound |
| 21 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feels | obj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 caught | advmod |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 insect | det |
| 24 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 caught | aux:pass |
| 26 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shake | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | a garden spider | a corner of spider's web | often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | a garden spider not said here | a signal thread | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | a garden spider not said here | the web shake | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | present · passive | a insect | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:6.
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): 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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