Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 12
Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.
Who acts: Most American tarantulas, female tarantulas · What happens: flick, barb, live · To what, where: itchy barbed hairs, enemies
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 (Most American tarantulas, female tarantulas), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 tarantulas | amod |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tarantulas | amod |
| 3 | tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flick | nsubj |
| 4 | flick | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hairs | amod |
| 6 | barbed | barb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hairs | amod |
| 7 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flick | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 enemies | case |
| 9 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flick | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 12 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tarantulas | amod |
| 13 | tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 live | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flick | conj |
| 16 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 30 | case |
| 18 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 20 | nmod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 live | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flick | present | Most American tarantulas | itchy barbed hairs | enemies | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hair=Theme at enemy=Destination | |||
| 2 | barb | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | live | can | female tarantulas | year | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:12.
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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