The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 10

Garden spiders build round webs that are big by autumn, dew makes the silk easy to see, and a garden spider can spin a new web in about an hour.

Who acts: Garden spiders, round webs, dew, garden spider · What happens: build, be, make, see, spin · To what, where: round webs, silk, new web

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (Garden spiders, round webs, dew, garden spider), 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	Garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spiders	compound
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	nsubj
3	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 makes	parataxis
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 webs	amod
5	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 big	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 webs	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 autumn	case
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
12	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 silk	det
15	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 makes	obj
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 easy	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spin	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spin	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spider	det
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spider	compound
23	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spin	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 spin	aux
25	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 makes	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 web	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 web	amod
28	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spin	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 hour	case
30	about	about	ADV	_	32 hour	advmod
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hour	det
32	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spin	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Garden spiders	round webs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product
2	is	present	round webs		autumn	big property	tree rules
3	make	present	dew	the silk		easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material silk=Product
4	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	spin	can	a garden spider	a new web	hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent web=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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:10.

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 ×2. 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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