Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 12
Real spiders cannot write words, but some weave zigzag silk decorations into their webs, which may warn birds away or attract insects; a spider can make up to seven kinds of silk.
Who acts: Real spiders, some, webs, spider · What happens: not write, weave, warn away, attract, make up · To what, where: words, zigzag silk decorations, webs, birds, insects
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 (Real spiders, some, webs, 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 write | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 write | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 write | advmod |
| 5 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 write | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weave | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 weave | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 weave | nsubj |
| 10 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 write | conj |
| 11 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decorations | compound |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decorations | compound |
| 13 | decorations | decoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weave | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 webs | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 webs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 warn | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 warn | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 warn | aux |
| 20 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 webs | acl:relcl |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 warn | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 warn | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 attract | cc |
| 24 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 warn | conj |
| 25 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 attract | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spider | det |
| 28 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 make | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 write | parataxis |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 make | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 kinds | case |
| 33 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 kinds | nummod |
| 34 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 make | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 silk | case |
| 36 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kinds | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 write | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | can | Real spiders | words | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | present | some | zigzag silk decorations | decorations's webs | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent decoration=Material into web=Product | |||
| 3 | warn away speech: warn | may | decorations's webs | birds | away property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | |||
| 4 | attract | infinitive | decorations's webs not said here | insects | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make up | can | a spider | to seven kinds of silk | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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