Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 10

Spiders stretch their legs out by pumping blood into them, so when a spider dies the pressure is gone and its legs curl underneath it.

Who acts: Spiders, spider, pressure, legs · What happens: stretch out, pump, die, be, curl · To what, where: legs, blood

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 (Spiders, spider, pressure, legs), 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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretch	nsubj
2	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretch	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 stretch	compound:prt
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 pumping	mark
7	pumping	pump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stretch	advcl
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pumping	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pumping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dies	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 dies	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 dies	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spider	det
15	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dies	nsubj
16	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stretch	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pressure	det
18	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	cop
20	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dies	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 curl	cc
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 legs	nmod:poss
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 curl	nsubj
24	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	conj
25	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 curl	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	present	Spiders	Spiders's legs		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	pump	gerund	Spiders not said here	blood	into Spiders = spider	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme into they=Destination
3	die	present	a spider			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	present	the pressure		gone property	tree rules
5	curl	present	pressure's legs		underneath pressure	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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