Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 8

In autumn male house spiders wander indoors looking for females, and they get stuck in the bath because they cannot climb its smooth sides.

Who acts: male house spiders, Spiders · What happens: wander, look, get, not climb · To what, where: smooth sides

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 (male house spiders, Spiders), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 autumn	case
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wander	obl
3	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spiders	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spiders	compound
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wander	nsubj
6	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	6 wander	advmod
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wander	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 females	case
10	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wander	conj
15	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 bath	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bath	det
18	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stuck	obl
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 climb	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climb	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 climb	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 climb	advmod
23	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	advcl
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sides	nmod:poss
25	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sides	amod
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 climb	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wander	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wander	present	male house spiders		autumn	indoors property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	male house spiders not said here			for females	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for female=Theme
3	get	present	Spiders = spider			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	not climb	can	Spiders = spider	bath's smooth sides			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location side=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:8.

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, 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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