Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 6

An orb spider spins spokes of dry silk and then a sticky spiral, and it walks mostly on the dry spokes; many eat their old web and spin a new one.

Who acts: orb spider, most, many · What happens: spin, walk, eat · To what, where: spokes, dry spokes, old web, new one

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 (orb spider, most, many), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	orb	orb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spider	compound
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spins	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 silk	case
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 silk	amod
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spokes	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spiral	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 spiral	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spiral	det
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spiral	amod
13	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silk	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walks	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walks	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walks	nsubj
17	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spins	conj
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	17 walks	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 spokes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spokes	det
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spokes	amod
22	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walks	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 walks	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 web	nmod:poss
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 web	amod
28	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spin	cc
30	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spin	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spins	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	spin	present	a orb spider	spokes of dry silk and a sticky spiral			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spoke=Theme
2	walk	present	most		the dry spokes	mostly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spoke=Trajectory
3	eat	present	many	Spiders's old web			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient
4	spin	present	many not said here	a new one			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=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:6.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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