Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 2
The web is a wheel of dry spokes with a sticky spiral, and the spider sits waiting, feeling the threads the way you feel a phone buzz in your pocket.
Who acts: web, spider, you · What happens: be, sit, wait, feel · To what, where: wheel, threads, phone buzz, pocket
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 (web, spider, you), 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 | 2 web | det |
| 2 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wheel | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wheel | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spokes | case |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spokes | amod |
| 8 | spokes | spoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wheel | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spiral | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spiral | det |
| 11 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spiral | amod |
| 12 | spiral | spiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spokes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sits | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sits | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spider | det |
| 16 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | nsubj |
| 17 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wheel | conj |
| 18 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sits | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feeling | punct |
| 20 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sits | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 threads | det |
| 22 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feeling | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feeling | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 feel | nsubj |
| 26 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 buzz | det |
| 28 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 buzz | compound |
| 29 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feel | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 pocket | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 32 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feel | obl | ||
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wheel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the web | a wheel | of dry spokes with a sticky spiral | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | present | the spider | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the spider not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | the spider not said here | the threads | the way obl:unmarked | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | |||
| 5 | feel | present | you | a phone buzz | your pocket | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme in pocket=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:2.
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. 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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