The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 11
The big spiders seen indoors in autumn are mostly male house spiders wandering in search of a partner; they were already living in the house, hidden, and are harmless to people.
Who acts: big spiders, male house spiders, webs · What happens: see, be, wander, live, hidden, search · To what, where: big spiders, male house spiders, search, house, partner
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 (big spiders, male house spiders, webs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spiders | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spiders | amod |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spiders | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spiders | acl |
| 5 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 autumn | case |
| 7 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spiders | cop |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 12 spiders | advmod |
| 10 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spiders | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spiders | compound |
| 12 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | wandering | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 spiders | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 15 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandering | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 partner | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 partner | det |
| 18 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 search | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 living | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 living | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 living | aux |
| 22 | already | already | ADV | _ | 23 living | advmod |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 spiders | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 living | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hidden | punct |
| 28 | hidden | hidden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 living | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 harmless | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 harmless | cc |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 harmless | cop |
| 32 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 living | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 people | case |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 harmless | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spiders | 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 | see | participle | the big spiders not said here | autumn | indoors property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the big spiders | male house spiders | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wander | gerund | male house spiders not said here | search of a partner | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | live | past · progressive | webs = web | the house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 5 | hidden | participle | webs = web not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | webs = web not said here | to people; harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | search | a partner | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:11.
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 ×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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