Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 10
Trapdoor spiders dig burrows with a hinged lid of soil and silk, feel insects walk by through trip lines of silk, and some live over 40 years.
Who acts: Trapdoor spiders, insects, some · What happens: dig, hinge, feel, walk, live · To what, where: burrows, trip lines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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 (Trapdoor spiders, insects, some), 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 | Trapdoor | trapdoor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spiders | compound |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | nsubj |
| 3 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dig | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lid | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 7 | hinged | hinge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lid | amod |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dig | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soil | case |
| 10 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lid | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 silk | cc |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soil | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dig | conj |
| 15 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 feel | ccomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 walk | obl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 lines | case |
| 19 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lines | compound |
| 20 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walk | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 silk | case |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lines | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dig | conj |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 40 | advmod |
| 28 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | Trapdoor spiders | burrows | with a hinged lid of soil and silk | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme with lid=Instrument | |||
| 2 | hinge | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | Trapdoor spiders not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | infinitive | insects | trip lines of silk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through line=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | live | present | some | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.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): 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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