Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 9
Stick insects rock like twigs in the wind so hunters ignore them, they eat leaves such as bramble or privet, and many pet stick insects lay eggs that hatch without a father.
Who acts: Stick insects, hunters, many stick insects, eggs · What happens: rock, ignore, eat, lay, hatch · To what, where: insects, leaves, eggs
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, hunters, many stick insects, eggs), 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 | 3 rock | nsubj |
| 3 | rock | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 twigs | case |
| 5 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rock | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twigs | nmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 ignore | advmod |
| 10 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ignore | nsubj |
| 11 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rock | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ignore | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rock | conj |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 bramble | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaves | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 privet | cc |
| 21 | privet | privet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bramble | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lay | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lay | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 insects | amod |
| 25 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stick | compound |
| 26 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 insects | compound |
| 27 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lay | nsubj |
| 28 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | conj |
| 29 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lay | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 hatch | nsubj |
| 31 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 eggs | acl:relcl |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 father | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 father | det |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hatch | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | present | Stick insects | like twigs in the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ignore | present | hunters | insects = insect | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | hunters = hunter | leaves | such bramble or privet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 4 | lay | present | many stick insects | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 5 | hatch | present | eggs | without a father | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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