Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 11
A scorpion has eight legs, like its cousin the spider, plus two big claws at the front and a sting on its tail.
Who acts: scorpion · What happens: have · To what, where: eight legs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 (scorpion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scorpion | det |
| 2 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cousin | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 cousin | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legs | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spider | det |
| 11 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cousin | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 claws | punct |
| 13 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 16 claws | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 claws | nummod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 claws | amod |
| 16 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legs | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 front | det |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claws | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sting | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sting | det |
| 22 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claws | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 tail | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tail | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sting | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | have | present | a scorpion | eight legs plus two big claws at the front and a sting on scorpion's tail | like scorpion's cousin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:11.
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 ×3. 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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