Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 15
Silk is made of protein, like hair, and its smooth fibres shine and feel soft; to get the long thread most cocoons are heated, so the pupa inside dies.
Who acts: smooth fibres, pupa · What happens: make, shine, feel, get, heat, die · To what, where: Silk, long thread, most cocoons
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 (smooth fibres, pupa), 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 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 protein | case |
| 5 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hair | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shine | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shine | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fibres | nmod:poss |
| 12 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fibres | amod |
| 13 | fibres | fibre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shine | nsubj |
| 14 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feel | cc |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shine | conj |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feel | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shine | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thread | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thread | amod |
| 23 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 cocoons | amod |
| 25 | cocoons | cocoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 heated | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 heated | aux:pass |
| 27 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thread | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dies | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 dies | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pupa | det |
| 31 | pupa | pupa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dies | nsubj |
| 32 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 33 dies | advmod |
| 33 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Silk | of protein; like hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | hair's smooth fibres | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | hair's smooth fibres not said here | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | hair's smooth fibres not said here | the long thread | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | heat | present · passive | most cocoons | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | die | present | the pupa | inside property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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