Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 3

The family includes scorpions that glow under an ultraviolet torch, ticks that wait in long grass, and the daddy longlegs, which is not a spider at all.

Who acts: family, scorpions, ticks, daddy longlegs · What happens: include, glow, wait, not be · To what, where: scorpions, ultraviolet torch, long grass, spider

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 (family, scorpions, ticks, daddy longlegs), 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 includes	nsubj
3	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 includes	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 glow	nsubj
6	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scorpions	acl:relcl
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 torch	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 torch	det
9	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 torch	amod
10	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ticks	punct
12	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scorpions	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wait	nsubj
14	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ticks	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grass	amod
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wait	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 longlegs	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 longlegs	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 longlegs	det
21	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 longlegs	compound
22	longlegs	longleg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scorpions	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spider	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 spider	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spider	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 spider	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spider	det
28	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 longlegs	acl:relcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 all	fixed
30	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 spider	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 includes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	include	present	the family	scorpions and ticks and the daddy longlegs			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Theme
2	glow	present	scorpions and ticks and the daddy longlegs		a ultraviolet torch		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under torch=Location
3	wait	present	ticks		long grass		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location
4	not is a	present	the daddy longlegs	a spider		all property	tree rules

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:3.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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