Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 5
Spiders are arachnids: they have eight legs, a body in two parts, no feelers and no wings, and most have eight eyes.
Who acts: Spiders, most · What happens: be, have · To what, where: arachnids, eight legs, eight eyes
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 (Spiders, most), 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 | Spiders | spider | 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arachnids | parataxis |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 body | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 parts | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 parts | nummod |
| 14 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 body | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feelers | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 feelers | det |
| 17 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arachnids | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wings | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 wings | det |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arachnids | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 23 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | conj |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 eyes | nummod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | 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 | Spiders | arachnids and no feelers and no wings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Spiders = spider | eight legs and a body in two parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | most | eight eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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:5.
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 ×2. 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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