The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 14

Giant tropical centipedes hunt insects, spiders and even small frogs and mice at night; their first pair of legs are hollow venom fangs, so they must never be handled.

Who acts: Giant tropical centipedes, first pair · What happens: hunt, be, not handle · To what, where: insects, hollow venom fangs, pairs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (Giant tropical centipedes, first pair), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 centipedes	amod
2	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 centipedes	amod
3	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spiders	punct
7	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frogs	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 frogs	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 frogs	amod
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mice	cc
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fangs	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pair	nmod:poss
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 pair	amod
19	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fangs	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 legs	case
21	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pair	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fangs	cop
23	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fangs	amod
24	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fangs	compound
25	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 handled	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	32 handled	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 handled	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 handled	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 handled	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 handled	aux:pass
32	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hunt	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hunt	present	Giant tropical centipedes	insects and spiders and small frogs and mice	night	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
2	is a	present	frogs's first pair of legs	hollow venom fangs		tree rules
3	not handle	must · passive		pairs = pair		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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