Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 14
Jumping spiders build no catching web: they stalk and leap, their big front eyes work like telescopes, they see colours, and some plan a route round obstacles to reach their prey.
Who acts: Jumping spiders, decorations, big front eyes, eyes, some · What happens: jump, build, stalk, leap, work, see · To what, where: catching web, colours, route, prey
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 (Jumping spiders, decorations, big front eyes, eyes), 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 | Jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 build | nsubj |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 web | det |
| 5 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 web | compound |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 stalk | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stalk | nsubj |
| 9 | stalk | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leap | cc |
| 11 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stalk | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 work | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 15 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 work | nsubj |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 telescopes | case |
| 19 | telescopes | telescope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 work | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 work | conj |
| 23 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 plan | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 plan | cc |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 plan | nsubj |
| 27 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 route | det |
| 29 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plan | obj |
| 30 | round | round | ADP | _ | 31 obstacles | case |
| 31 | obstacles | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 route | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 reach | mark |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 plan | advcl |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 prey | nmod:poss |
| 35 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | build | present | Jumping spiders | no catching web | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product | ||||
| 3 | stalk | present | decorations = decoration | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leap | present | decorations = decoration not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | present | decorations's big front eyes | like telescopes | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | see | present | eyes = eye | colours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | plan | present | some | a route | round obstacles | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Topic | |||
| 8 | reach | to-infinitive | some not said here | decorations's prey | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent prey=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:14.
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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