Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 16
The harvestman, or daddy longlegs, is an arachnid but not a spider: it has a one-piece round body, two eyes, no silk and no venom at all.
Who acts: harvestman, shell · What happens: be, have · To what, where: arachnid, piece round body
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 (harvestman, shell), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 harvestman | det |
| 2 | harvestman | harvestman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arachnid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 longlegs | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 longlegs | cc |
| 5 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 longlegs | compound |
| 6 | longlegs | longleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 harvestman | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 harvestman | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 arachnid | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arachnid | det |
| 10 | arachnid | arachnid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 spider | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 spider | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spider | det |
| 14 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arachnid | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 arachnid | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 piece | nummod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 body | compound |
| 22 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 body | amod |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eyes | punct |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 eyes | nummod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 body | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 silk | punct |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 silk | det |
| 29 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 piece | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 venom | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 venom | det |
| 32 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 silk | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 venom | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arachnid | 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 | the harvestman or daddy longlegs | a arachnid but a spider | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | shell | a piece round body and two eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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:16.
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 ×5. 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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