More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 0
Look closely at a pond and you may see a tiny tube of stones walking along the bottom: inside is a caddis fly larva wearing a house it glued together itself.
Who acts: you, stones, caddis fly larva, larva · What happens: look, see, walk, be, wear, glue · To what, where: tiny tube, bottom, house, larva
This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (you, stones, caddis fly larva, larva), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 pond | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pond | det |
| 5 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tube | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tube | amod |
| 12 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stones | case |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tube | nmod |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stones | acl |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 bottom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bottom | det |
| 18 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 21 is | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 larva | det |
| 23 | caddis | caddis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 larva | compound |
| 24 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 larva | compound |
| 25 | larva | larva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 26 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 larva | acl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wearing | obj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 glued | nsubj |
| 30 | glued | glue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | acl:relcl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 glued | advmod |
| 32 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 glued | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at a pond; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pond=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | you | a tiny tube of stones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tube=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | stones not said here | the bottom | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | be | present | a caddis fly larva | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wear | gerund | a caddis fly larva not said here | a house | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source | ||||
| 6 | glue | past | larva | larva | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:0.
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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