Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 7
The spider walks mostly on the dry spokes and has special claws and hairs on its feet; only the spiral carries sticky glue drops.
Who acts: spider, spiral · What happens: walk, have, carry · To what, where: dry spokes, special claws, feet, sticky glue drops
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, spiral), 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 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 walks | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 spokes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spokes | det |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spokes | amod |
| 8 | spokes | spoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walks | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walks | conj |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 claws | amod |
| 12 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hairs | cc |
| 14 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 claws | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 claws | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 drops | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 spiral | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spiral | det |
| 21 | spiral | spiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carries | nsubj |
| 22 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walks | parataxis |
| 23 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drops | amod |
| 24 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drops | compound |
| 25 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carries | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | the spider | the dry spokes | mostly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spoke=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have | present | the spider not said here | special claws and hairs | spider's feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | present | the spiral | sticky glue drops | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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:7.
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 ×2, 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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