Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 2
A stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and drops to the floor stiff as a stick when touched.
Who acts: stick insect · What happens: sway, drop, touch · To what, where: wind, floor
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 insect), 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 | 3 insect | det |
| 2 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 insect | compound |
| 3 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sways | nsubj |
| 4 | sways | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 twig | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 twig | det |
| 7 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sways | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sways | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drops | cc |
| 12 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sways | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stiff | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | obl |
| 16 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drops | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 stick | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stick | det |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stiff | obl |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 touched | mark |
| 21 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 drops | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sways | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | present | a stick insect | the wind | like a twig | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | |||
| 2 | drop | present | a stick insect not said here | the floor | stiff property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | touch | participle | a stick insect not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:2.
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, R6-punct-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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