Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 12
A silkworm spins a cocoon from one single thread of liquid silk over two or three days, and the thread can be longer than five football pitches.
Who acts: silkworm, thread · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: cocoon, one single thread
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, thread), 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 spins | nsubj |
| 3 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cocoon | det |
| 5 | cocoon | cocoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spins | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 thread | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 thread | nummod |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thread | amod |
| 9 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spins | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 silk | case |
| 11 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 silk | amod |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thread | nmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 three | cc |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 two | conj |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spins | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 longer | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 longer | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thread | det |
| 21 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 longer | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 longer | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 longer | cop |
| 24 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 spins | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 pitches | case |
| 26 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 pitches | nummod |
| 27 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pitches | compound |
| 28 | pitches | pitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 longer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | a silkworm | a cocoon | one single thread of liquid silk | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cocoon=Theme from thread=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is | can | the thread | than five football pitches; long 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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:12.
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. 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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