Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 18
The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.
Who acts: bell spider · What happens: live, fill · To what, where: silk tent, surface
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 (bell spider), 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 | 4 spider | det |
| 2 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bell | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | compound |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ponds | case |
| 6 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ponds | amod |
| 7 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spider | nmod |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | underwater | underwater | ADV | _ | 8 lives | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tent | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tent | det |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tent | compound |
| 13 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tent | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 surface | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 surface | det |
| 19 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lives | 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 | live | present | the bell spider of European ponds | a silk tent | underwater property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a silk tent not said here | the surface | with air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with air=Instrument |
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:18.
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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