More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 15
Hummingbird nests are tiny cups of plant fluff held together with spider silk, which stretches as the chicks grow, and a hummingbird egg is about the size of a jelly bean.
Who acts: Hummingbird nests, spider silk, chicks, hummingbird egg · What happens: be, hold together, stretch, grow · To what, where: tiny cups, plant fluff, size
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 (Hummingbird nests, spider silk, chicks, hummingbird egg), 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 | Hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nests | compound |
| 2 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cups | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cups | cop |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cups | amod |
| 5 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fluff | case |
| 7 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluff | compound |
| 8 | fluff | fluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cups | nmod |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fluff | acl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 12 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silk | compound |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretches | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stretches | nsubj |
| 16 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 silk | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 grow | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chicks | det |
| 19 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grow | nsubj |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stretches | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 size | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 size | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 egg | det |
| 24 | hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 egg | compound |
| 25 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 size | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 size | cop |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 size | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 size | det |
| 29 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cups | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bean | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bean | det |
| 32 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bean | compound |
| 33 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 size | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cups | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hummingbird nests | tiny cups and the size | of plant fluff | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold together | participle | plant fluff not said here | with spider silk; together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | spider silk | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | grow | present | the chicks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a hummingbird egg | the size | of a jelly bean; about property | tree rules |
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:15.
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): 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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