Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 8
Silverfish are wingless insects with three long tails that have looked much the same for an enormously long time; they eat starch (the stuff in flour and pasta), glue, paper and crumbs, like damp dark places and can live a year without food.
Who acts: Silverfish, three long tails · What happens: be, look, eat, live · To what, where: wingless insects, starch
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 (Silverfish, three long tails), 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 | Silverfish | silverfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 insects | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 insects | cop |
| 3 | wingless | wingless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 insects | amod |
| 4 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tails | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 tails | nummod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tails | amod |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 insects | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | aux |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tails | acl:relcl |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 same | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 17 | enormously | enormously | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 eat | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 insects | parataxis |
| 23 | starch | starch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 stuff | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stuff | det |
| 26 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 starch | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 flour | case |
| 28 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stuff | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pasta | cc |
| 30 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flour | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 stuff | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 glue | punct |
| 33 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 starch | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 paper | punct |
| 35 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 starch | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 crumbs | cc |
| 37 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 starch | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 places | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 places | case |
| 40 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 places | amod |
| 41 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 places | amod |
| 42 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eat | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 live | cc |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 live | aux |
| 45 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 eat | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 year | det |
| 47 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 live | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | without | without | ADP | _ | 49 food | case |
| 49 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 live | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 insects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Silverfish | wingless insects | with three long tails | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present · perfect | three long tails | time | same property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | eat | present | silverfish | starch and glue and paper and crumbs | like damp dark places | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starch=Patient | |||
| 4 | live | can | silverfish not said here | year | without food | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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, 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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