Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 3
Not every spider builds a web: some dig trapdoors, some live in an air bubble under a pond, some swing a sticky ball, and some hunt like little cats with big eyes.
Who acts: spider, some · What happens: build, dig, live, swing, hunt · To what, where: web, trapdoors, air bubble, sticky ball
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 (spider, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 spider | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 spider | det |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 builds | nsubj |
| 4 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 web | det |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 builds | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 builds | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 dig | nsubj |
| 9 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 builds | conj |
| 10 | trapdoors | trapdoor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dig | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 builds | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bubble | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bubble | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bubble | compound |
| 17 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 pond | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pond | det |
| 20 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bubble | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swing | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 swing | nsubj |
| 23 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 builds | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ball | det |
| 25 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ball | amod |
| 26 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hunt | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hunt | cc |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 hunt | nsubj |
| 30 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 swing | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 cats | case |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cats | amod |
| 33 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hunt | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 eyes | amod |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cats | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 builds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | every spider | a web | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product | ||||
| 2 | dig | present | some | trapdoors | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trapdoor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | some | a air bubble under a pond | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bubble=Location | ||||
| 4 | swing | present | some | a sticky ball | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunt | present | some | like little cats with big eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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