Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 5
The big spiders seen in houses in autumn are mostly males already living there, walking about looking for partners; giant house spiders can have a leg span of about 7 centimetres.
Who acts: big spiders, males, giant house spiders · What happens: see, be, live, walk, look, have · To what, where: big spiders, houses, males, leg span
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 (big spiders, males, giant house 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spiders | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spiders | amod |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 males | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spiders | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 houses | case |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seen | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 autumn | case |
| 8 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 males | cop |
| 10 | mostly | mostly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 males | advmod |
| 11 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 living | advmod |
| 13 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 males | acl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 living | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walking | punct |
| 16 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 living | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 walking | advmod |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 walking | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 partners | case |
| 20 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 22 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spiders | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spiders | compound |
| 24 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 males | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 span | det |
| 28 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 span | compound |
| 29 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 centimetres | case |
| 31 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 7 | advmod |
| 32 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 centimetres | nummod |
| 33 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 span | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 males | 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 | see | participle | the big spiders not said here | houses | autumn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the big spiders | males | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | gerund | males not said here | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | males not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | males not said here | for partners | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for partner=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | can | giant house spiders | a leg span of 7 centimetres | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent span=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:5.
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, 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.
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