Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 1
Look at a garden spider in the middle of its web on a dewy autumn morning: dry spokes, a sticky spiral, and the spider walking on the dry lines so it never gets stuck in its own trap.
Who acts: you, spider, spiral · What happens: look, walk, not get · To what, where: dry lines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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, spider, spiral), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 spider | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spider | compound |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spider | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 web | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 web | nmod:poss |
| 11 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 14 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 morning | amod |
| 15 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 morning | compound |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 spokes | punct |
| 18 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spokes | amod |
| 19 | spokes | spoke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spiral | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spiral | det |
| 22 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spiral | amod |
| 23 | spiral | spiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spokes | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spider | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spider | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spider | det |
| 27 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spokes | conj |
| 28 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 spider | acl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 lines | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lines | det |
| 31 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lines | amod |
| 32 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 walking | obl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 gets | advmod |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gets | nsubj |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 gets | advmod |
| 36 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | advcl |
| 37 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gets | xcomp |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 trap | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 trap | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 trap | amod |
| 41 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stuck | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | morning | at a garden spider in the middle of middle's web | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spider=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the spider not said here | the dry lines | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not get | present | spiral | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:1.
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. 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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