Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 5
Many spend years as a fat grub in soil or wood and only weeks as an adult.
Who acts: Many · What happens: spend
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 (Many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spend | nsubj |
| 2 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spend | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 grub | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grub | det |
| 6 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grub | amod |
| 7 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spend | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 soil | case |
| 9 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grub | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 wood | cc |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soil | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weeks | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 weeks | advmod |
| 14 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 years | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 adult | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adult | det |
| 17 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spend | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spend | 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 | spend | present | Many | year | as a fat grub in soil or wood; as a adult | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as grub=Attribute |
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:5.
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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