Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 10

Woodlice breathe with gill-like parts that must stay damp, so they hide in wet dark places, and they can take up water through tiny tubes at the back as well as through the mouth.

Who acts: Woodlice, gill like parts · What happens: breathe, stay, hide, take up · To what, where: wet dark places, water, tiny tubes

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 (Woodlice, gill like parts), 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	Woodlice	Woodlice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 parts	case
4	gill	gill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parts	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stay	punct
6	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parts	amod
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stay	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stay	aux
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 parts	acl:relcl
11	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stay	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hide	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 hide	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hide	nsubj
15	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breathe	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 places	case
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 places	amod
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 places	amod
19	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hide	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 breathe	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 take	compound:prt
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 tubes	case
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tubes	amod
29	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 take	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 back	det
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tubes	nmod
33	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	38 mouth	cc
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 as	fixed
35	as	as	ADP	_	33 as	fixed
36	through	through	ADP	_	38 mouth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mouth	det
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breathe	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Woodlice			with gill like parts	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	must	gill like parts			damp property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	present	woodlice		wet dark places		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	take up	can	woodlice	water	tiny tubes at the back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.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): R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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