Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 11
The diving bell spider makes a silk tent under water and fills it with air carried from the surface; it is the only spider that lives almost all its life under water.
Who acts: diving bell spider, spider, only spider · What happens: make, fill, carry, be, live · To what, where: silk tent, water, spider, air, surface, only spider
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 (diving bell spider, spider, only 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spider | det |
| 2 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | compound |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tent | det |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tent | compound |
| 8 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fills | cc |
| 12 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fills | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fills | obl |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 air | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 surface | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 surface | det |
| 19 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 spider | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 spider | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 spider | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spider | det |
| 24 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spider | amod |
| 25 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lives | nsubj |
| 27 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 spider | acl:relcl |
| 28 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 29 all | advmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 life | det:predet |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lives | obj |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 water | case |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lives | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the diving bell spider | a silk tent | water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tent=Product | |||
| 2 | fill | present | the diving bell spider not said here | spider | with air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with air=Instrument | |||
| 3 | carry | participle | air not said here | the surface | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from surface=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | spider | the only spider | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | present | the only spider | spider's life | water | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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:11.
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, R8-pos-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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