Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 1
Stick insects, giant snails, ants and hermit crabs live in tanks and jars, and each one is a small window into how animals survive.
Who acts: Stick insects, one, animals · What happens: live, be, survive · To what, where: tanks, small window
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (Stick insects, one, animals), 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 | Stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 insects | compound |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 snails | punct |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snails | amod |
| 5 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 insects | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ants | punct |
| 7 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 insects | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crabs | cc |
| 9 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crabs | compound |
| 10 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 insects | conj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tanks | case |
| 13 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jars | cc |
| 15 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tanks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 window | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 window | cc |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 window | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 window | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 window | amod |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 survive | case |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 survive | advmod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 survive | nsubj |
| 27 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 window | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Stick insects and giant snails and ants and hermit crabs | tanks and jars | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | each one | a small window | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | survive | present | animals | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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