Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 15
Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.
Who acts: Scorpions, outer shell, mothers · What happens: be, glow, carry · To what, where: arachnids, ultraviolet light, babies, backs
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 (Scorpions, outer shell, mothers), 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 | Scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arachnids | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arachnids | cop |
| 3 | arachnids | arachnid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 shell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shell | amod |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glows | nsubj |
| 7 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arachnids | acl:relcl |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 green | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 blue | punct |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glows | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 12 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glows | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 15 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arachnids | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 babies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 backs | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 backs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arachnids | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Scorpions | arachnids | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | present | outer shell | ultraviolet light | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | |||
| 3 | carry | present | mothers | mothers's babies | mothers's backs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:15.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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