Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 12
Holes in wool clothes are made by clothes moth caterpillars, not the adult moths, which do not eat at all; the caterpillars eat wool, fur and feathers, and washing, airing and freezing woollens gets rid of them.
Who acts: clothes, adult moths, caterpillars, washing · What happens: make, not eat, eat, freeze, get · To what, where: Holes, all, wool, woollens
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 (clothes, adult moths, caterpillars, washing), 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 | Holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 clothes | case |
| 3 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clothes | compound |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Holes | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 clothes | case |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 made | obl:agent |
| 9 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caterpillars | compound |
| 10 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moths | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 moths | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moths | det |
| 14 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moths | amod |
| 15 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caterpillars | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eat | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 eat | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 eat | advmod |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 moths | acl:relcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 eat | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 caterpillars | det |
| 25 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 eat | nsubj |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 27 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eat | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fur | punct |
| 29 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wool | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 feathers | cc |
| 31 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wool | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 washing | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 washing | cc |
| 34 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gets | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 airing | punct |
| 36 | airing | airing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 washing | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 freezing | cc |
| 38 | freezing | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 washing | conj |
| 39 | woollens | woollen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 freezing | obj |
| 40 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 eat | parataxis |
| 41 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gets | xcomp |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 rid | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | clothes | Holes in wool clothes | moth caterpillars and the adult moths obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | not eat | present · do-support | the adult moths | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | the caterpillars | wool and fur and feathers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient | ||||
| 4 | freeze | gerund | washing and airing not said here | woollens | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient woollen=Result | ||||
| 5 | get | present | washing and airing | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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