Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 2
Find a big spider in the bath and it looks as if it crawled up the plughole, but it almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides; a towel ramp lets it out.
Who acts: you, it, Most, towel ramp · What happens: find, look, crawl up, fall in, hunt, not climb · To what, where: big spider, bath, plughole, slippery sides, Most
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 (you, it, Most, towel ramp), 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 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spider | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spider | amod |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Find | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bath | det |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Find | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looks | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Find | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 crawled | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 crawled | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crawled | nsubj |
| 14 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 crawled | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plughole | det |
| 17 | plughole | plughole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crawled | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 certainly | advmod |
| 22 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Find | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 hunting | mark |
| 26 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 fell | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 climb | cc |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 climb | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 climb | advmod |
| 30 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fell | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sides | det |
| 32 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sides | amod |
| 33 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 climb | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 lets | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ramp | det |
| 36 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ramp | compound |
| 37 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lets | nsubj |
| 38 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lets | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 lets | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | a big spider | the bath | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic | |||
| 2 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | crawl up | past | Most | the plughole | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location plughole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall in | past | Most | certainly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunt | gerund | Most not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not climb | can | Most not said here | the slippery sides | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location side=Theme | ||||
| 7 | let out | present | a towel ramp | Most | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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