Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 4
A spider in the bath almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides, and a plughole's water trap stops spiders coming up the drain; most spiders have eight legs and eight eyes.
Who acts: spider, water trap, spiders, most spiders · What happens: fell in, hunting, not climb, stop, come up, have · To what, where: slippery sides, spiders, drain, eight legs
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 (spider, water trap, spiders, most spiders), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bath | det |
| 5 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spider | nmod |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 certainly | advmod |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 hunting | mark |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fell | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 climb | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 climb | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 climb | advmod |
| 15 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hunting | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sides | det |
| 17 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sides | amod |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 climb | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stops | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stops | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plughole | det |
| 22 | plughole | plughole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trap | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 plughole | case |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trap | compound |
| 25 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stops | nsubj |
| 26 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 27 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stops | obj |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 spiders | acl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 coming | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drain | det |
| 31 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coming | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 33 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 spiders | amod |
| 34 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 have | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 stops | conj |
| 36 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 legs | nummod |
| 37 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 eyes | cc |
| 39 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 eyes | nummod |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 legs | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fell in | past | a spider in the bath | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunting | gerund | a spider in the bath not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not climb | can | a spider in the bath not said here | the slippery sides | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location side=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | present | a plughole's water trap | spiders | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spider=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come up | gerund | spiders not said here | the drain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | present | most spiders | eight legs and eight eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:4.
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): 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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