Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 7
Many spiders eat their old web before building a new one, to reuse the protein in the silk.
Who acts: Many spiders · What happens: eat, build, reuse · To what, where: old web, new one, protein, silk
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 spiders), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 web | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 web | amod |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 building | mark |
| 8 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 eat | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reuse | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reuse | mark |
| 14 | reuse | reuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eat | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 protein | det |
| 16 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reuse | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 silk | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 silk | det |
| 19 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reuse | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Many spiders | webs's old web | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient | ||||
| 2 | build | gerund | Many spiders not said here | a new one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 3 | reuse | to-infinitive | Many spiders not said here | the protein | the silk | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protein=Asset |
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:7.
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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