Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 0
Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silverfish nibble old books, woodlice hide under flowerpots, moth caterpillars munch wool and dust mites live in your bed.
Who acts: home, spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moth caterpillars, mites · What happens: be, hunt, nibble, hide, munch, live · To what, where: small wild world, corners, old books, flowerpots, wool, bed
This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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 (home, spiders, silverfish, woodlice), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 home | nmod:poss |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 world | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 world | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 9 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 world | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 corners | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corners | det |
| 13 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hunt | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nibble | punct |
| 15 | silverfish | silverfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nibble | nsubj |
| 16 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | conj |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 books | amod |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nibble | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hide | punct |
| 20 | woodlice | woodlice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hide | nsubj |
| 21 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 nibble | conj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 flowerpots | case |
| 23 | flowerpots | flowerpot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hide | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 munch | punct |
| 25 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caterpillars | compound |
| 26 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 munch | nsubj |
| 27 | munch | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 nibble | conj |
| 28 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 munch | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dust | cc |
| 30 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wool | conj |
| 31 | mites | mite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 munch | obj |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 mites | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bed | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 live | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 world | 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 | is a | present | Your home | a small wild world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | spiders | the corners | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 3 | nibble | present | silverfish | old books | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | woodlice | flowerpots | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under flowerpot=Location | ||||
| 5 | munch | present | moth caterpillars | wool and dust | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | present | mites not said here | your bed | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location |
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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:0.
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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