Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 5
An orb web is a wheel of strong spokes with a sticky spiral that catches flying insects; dew on the silk shows the pattern, and a garden spider often eats its old web and builds a new one nearly every day.
Who acts: orb web, sticky spiral, dew, garden spider · What happens: be, catch, fly, show, eat, build · To what, where: wheel, flying insects, pattern, old web, new one
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 (orb web, sticky spiral, dew, garden 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 web | det |
| 2 | orb | orb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 web | compound |
| 3 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wheel | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wheel | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wheel | det |
| 6 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spokes | case |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spokes | amod |
| 9 | spokes | spoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wheel | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 spiral | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spiral | det |
| 12 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spiral | amod |
| 13 | spiral | spiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spokes | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 catches | nsubj |
| 15 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 spiral | acl:relcl |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 insects | amod |
| 17 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 catches | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dew | punct |
| 19 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shows | nsubj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 silk | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 silk | det |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dew | nmod |
| 23 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wheel | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pattern | det |
| 25 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shows | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eats | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 eats | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 spider | det |
| 29 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spider | compound |
| 30 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eats | nsubj |
| 31 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 eats | advmod |
| 32 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 shows | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 web | nmod:poss |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 web | amod |
| 35 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eats | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 builds | cc |
| 37 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 eats | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 builds | obj |
| 41 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 43 day | advmod |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 day | det |
| 43 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 builds | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wheel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a orb web | a wheel | of strong spokes with a sticky spiral | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | present | a sticky spiral | flying insects | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | show | present | dew on the silk | the pattern | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pattern=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | a garden spider | spider's old web | often property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient | |||
| 6 | build | present | a garden spider not said here | a new one | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |
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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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