Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 6
House spiders eat flies, moths and even other spiders, so they are free pest control.
Who acts: House spiders, spiders · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: flies, free pest control
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 (House spiders, 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 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spiders | compound |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moths | punct |
| 6 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flies | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spiders | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 spiders | advmod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spiders | amod |
| 10 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flies | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 control | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 control | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 control | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 control | cop |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 control | amod |
| 16 | pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 control | compound |
| 17 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | 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 | eat | present | House spiders | flies and moths and other spiders | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | spiders = spider | free pest control | tree rules |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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