Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 6
The spider feels vibrations through the threads and can tell where the prey is and how big it is; many web spiders see poorly and read the web like a telephone line.
Who acts: spider, prey, many web spiders · What happens: feel, tell, be, see, read · To what, where: vibrations, threads, web · Speech: someone speaks here
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, prey, many web spiders), 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 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feels | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 threads | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 threads | det |
| 7 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vibrations | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feels | conj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 big | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prey | det |
| 13 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 big | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 big | cop |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 big | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 big | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 big | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 big | cop |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spiders | amod |
| 22 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spiders | compound |
| 23 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 see | nsubj |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | parataxis |
| 25 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 read | cc |
| 27 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 web | det |
| 29 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 read | obj |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 line | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 line | det |
| 32 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 line | compound |
| 33 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 read | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the spider | vibrations | the threads | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through thread=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | the spider not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the prey | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present | many web spiders | poorly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | read | present | many web spiders not said here | the web | like a telephone line | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Topic |
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:6.
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, 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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