Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 16

Museums use hide beetles to eat dried flesh off bones without harming them, cleaning a small skull in a few days, but similar beetles are pests that eat stuffed animals and wool.

Who acts: Museums, similar beetles, pests · What happens: use, eat, dry, harm, clean, be · To what, where: hide beetles, dried flesh, bones, small skull, pests, stuffed animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (Museums, similar beetles, pests), 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	Museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beetles	compound
4	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 flesh	amod
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 bones	case
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 harming	mark
12	harming	harm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 eat	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 harming	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cleaning	punct
15	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 eat	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 skull	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 skull	amod
18	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cleaning	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 days	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cleaning	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pests	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 pests	cc
25	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beetles	amod
26	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pests	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pests	cop
28	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 eat	nsubj
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pests	acl:relcl
31	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 animals	amod
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 eat	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wool	cc
34	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 animals	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Museums	hide beetles			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	Museums not said here	dried flesh		off bones	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
3	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	harm	gerund	Museums not said here	bones = bone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	clean	gerund	Museums not said here	a small skull	day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skull=Patient
6	is a	present	similar beetles	pests			tree rules
7	eat	present	pests	stuffed animals and wool			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
8	stuff	participle					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:16.

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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