Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 11
Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.
Who acts: Jumping spiders, two huge front eyes, Spiders · What happens: have, see, stalk, pounce, use · To what, where: two huge front eyes, webs
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 (Jumping spiders, two huge front eyes, 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 | Jumping | jump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 6 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 colour | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 colour | case |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sharply | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stalk | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stalk | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stalk | nsubj |
| 17 | stalk | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pounce | cc |
| 19 | pounce | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stalk | conj |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 using | mark |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stalk | advcl |
| 23 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 using | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Jumping spiders | two huge front eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | present | two huge front eyes | sharply property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stalk | present | Spiders = spider | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pounce | present | Spiders = spider not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | use | gerund | Spiders = spider not said here | webs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:11.
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): 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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