Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 11
A silkworm grows thousands of times heavier in about a month and sheds its skin four times, because old skin cannot stretch.
Who acts: silkworm, old skin · What happens: grow, shed, not stretch · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (silkworm, old skin), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 silkworm | det |
| 2 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heavier | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 times | case |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 7 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grows | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 month | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 month | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sheds | cc |
| 13 | sheds | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grows | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sheds | obj |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sheds | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stretch | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 stretch | mark |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 skin | amod |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretch | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stretch | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stretch | advmod |
| 24 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sheds | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | 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 | grow | present | a silkworm | month | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shed | present | a silkworm not said here | moth's skin | time | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | |||
| 3 | not stretch | can | old skin | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:11.
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. 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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